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Kundu (West novel)

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A story of people living in a village in the New Guinea highlands. They include the mysterious doctor Kurt Sonderfield, a former Nazi; a native girl N'Daria; a sorcerer called Kumo, an old French missionary Pere Louis; Sonderfield's wife Gerda; a coffee company agent, Theodore Nelson; Lee Curtis,
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said "Well written and swift-moving, with touches of interesting characterisation and much lurid lore of the country, the novel passes away an hour or so pleasantly enough; but by the adoption of these dime-novel plots Mr. West really removes his work from serious consideration."
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the patrol officer; Oliver, the Assistant District Officer; and an anthropologist, Nelson.
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Missen, Mollie (February 20, 1993). "A master storyteller signs off".
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Index


Morris West
Gallows on the Sand
The Big Story
Morris West
"WRITERS' WORLD"
The Canberra Times
"The pick of Australian paperbacks in print"
The Canberra Times
"Two Novels of Note identifier"
"New Guinea Novel"
Kundu
AustLit
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Morris West
Gallows on the Sand
Kundu
The Big Story
The Second Victory
The Devil's Advocate
Daughter of Silence
The Shoes of the Fisherman
The Ambassador
The Tower of Babel
Summer of the Red Wolf
The Salamander
Harlequin
The Navigator

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