Set in Borneo, this is the heart-rending tale of a man tortured by the past, and of the intense love between his son and his adopted daughter which offers him the promise of redemption.
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William Rivière was born in 1954 and brought up in Norfolk. After leaving Cambridge, he spent several years in Venice, and later worked in Japan and travelled extensively around the Far East. He is married to a painter, and teaches at the University of Urbino in Italy.
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