Drusilla Modjeska

Maunten

September 13, 2019
Novel
564 pages
129 × 210 mm
21 €
9782367342030
978-2-3673-4203-0
Translated from the English by Mireille Vignol
																Drusilla Modjeska, Maunten
																Drusilla Modjeska, Maunten

In 1968, the winds of independence began to blow over Papua New Guinea. Leonard, an English anthropologist filmmaker, was invited by the country’s newest university to make a film about exceptional tapa (bark cloth), painted by the women of a village lost in the mountain heights. He is accompanied by his young Dutch wife, Rika, who befriends a group of foreign academics and young Papuan intellectuals.
This meeting will change their lives. Why and how? This is what the next generation is trying to unravel in 2005, thirty years after the independence of this country that has always fascinated the European imagination, particularly that of the surrealists, but which it will have to demystify.

The author

Born in England in 1946, Drusilla Modjeska is one of the most acclaimed writers in Australia, where she emigrated in 1971 after living in Papua New Guinea. She has published three novels and six collections of essays or memoirs, which have won numerous prizes and awards. In 2011, she co-founded SEAM, a charity promoting literacy in Papua New Guinea.

Press

Maunten is an epic tale, ambitious in scope and lavish in execution.”

Canberra Times.
September 13, 2019
Novel
564 pages
129 × 210 mm
21 €
9782367342030
978-2-3673-4203-0
Translated from the English by Mireille Vignol