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Isle of Gore

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November 2001, no. 236

Abaza: A modern encylopedia by Louis Nowra

Picador, $21 pb, 475 pp

Isle of Gore

by
November 2001, no. 236

I felts as if I had fallen into hell,’ reflects the Keeper of the President’s Clarinet of his visit to the city of Baha. The statement is almost redundant. The sun cannot penetrate the toxic pollution of this city; he has just passed a group of children betting on the imminent death of a fly-infested man; and he is there to kidnap an hermaphrodite child-prostitute. However, his words could be voiced by most inhabitants of the fictional land of Abaza; this novel is filled with such baroque, nightmare imagery.

Abaza: A modern encylopedia

Abaza: A modern encylopedia

by Louis Nowra

Picador, $21 pb, 475 pp

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