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Summary
Summary
Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting and trading--and forgetting.
But when a young soldier comes to the mountains in search of a local myth, Ren is inexorably drawn into her impossible mission.
As their lives entwine, unravel and erupt--as myths merge with reality--both Ren and the soldier are forced to confront what they regret, what they love, and what they fear.
Robbie Arnott's stunning second novel remakes our relationship with the natural world. The Rain Heron is equal parts horror and wonder, and utterly gripping.
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Ren has retreated from the world. After the country is torn apart by a coup, she hides herself away on a mountain, barely seeing another living soul beyond the animals she hunts in order to survive and the man from the village who she sometimes trades with. Over the years she finds not peace, but an equilibrium--until the day the soldiers come to hunt down a creature that surely can't exist. The Rain Heron is a beautifully told story in four parts, in which the line between reality and myth is impossible to draw. As in his debut novel, Flames, Robbie Arnott writes characters--human and animal alike--that you invest in rapidly, making the twists and turns in their stories feel that much more personal and at times shocking. We don't see the war directly. Instead we feel its effects through the intimately realised characters, and the way their lives have been redirected and tainted. Arnott expertly navigates the fraught relationships between humans and the natural world, and paints shades of grey into moments that for a lesser writer would be purely black and white. This is a book that is not only a compelling, original read, but one that delivers hard truths that urgently need to be heard. Elizabeth Flux is a freelance writer and editor
Excerpts
Excerpts
Soldiers have come to the village.
Ren looked up, avoiding Barlow's words, resting her eyes on the pines that crowded the sky, swamp-green, thick, heavy with resin that stuck to skin and cleared throats, nostrils, eyes. Barlow was sitting on a large rock. When she didn't answer, he kept talking.
They're after something--they won't say what. But it's up here. On the mountain.
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