Visitants (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Randolph Stow
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1959
- Setting: Papua, New Guinea
- Principal Characters: Alistair Cawdor, Tim Dalwood, K. M. MacDonnell, Naibusi, Saliba, Dipapa, Benoni, Osana, Metusela, Kailusa
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Culture, Race, Suicide, Islands, Death or dying, Mysteries, Cults, Insurgency
- Locales: Papua New Guinea
The Novel
The premise of this short, intense novel is a hearing into the cause of the death of Alistair Cawdor, a suicide. Several people—K. M. MacDonnell, Saliba, Tim Dalwood, Osana, and Benoni—give their respective retrospective accounts of the last days of Cawdor’s life; Cawdor is, in a sense, able to participate after the fact in this account through the characters’ recollections of his words and actions and through passages from his journal. The Assistant District Officer, Mr. J. G. Browne, oversees the inquiry.
The last days of Cawdor’s life are spent on...
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