Branch	Locations	Status	Reservations	Due date	Lending note
Branch: Palais Walderdorff	Locations: 16 Englisch Hulme / 1. OG Roman-Abteilung	Status: available	Reservations: 0	Due date:	Lending note:

Kerewin's cocoon is rudely blown away by the sudden arrival during a rainstorm of Simon, a mute six-year-old whose past seems to hold some terrible trauma. In his wake comes his foster-father Joe, a Maori factory worker with a nasty temper.

The narrative unravels to reveal the truths that lie behind these three characters, and in so doing displays itself as a huge, ambitious work that tackles the clash between Maori and European characters in beautiful prose of a heartrending poignancy.