The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow by Thea Astley

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners. Pages are sunned.

In 1930 the superintendent of a mission on a Queensland island, driven mad by his wife's death, goes on a murderous rampage. Fearing for their lives, the other whites arm a young Indigenous man and order him to shoot Uncle Boss dead.

The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow traces the lead-up to this bloody showdown and the repercussions in the years after for Aboriginal people and the colonial overseers. Based on the 1930 Palm Island tragedy.