This gentleman, RICHARD NAPAM has written a stunning story where the underlying truths are revealed only over the whole book. Very, very clever structure and an intellectual delight. The reader is captured from the first page; with the subtle cultural reveal extending throughout the entire book. Meet the family living deep in the Papua New Guinea highlands. Their journey as they live a traditional life, with conflicts and challenges, love and loss, new children, communities, and celebrations throughout a lifetime. The arrival of colonisation with its new teachings, new ways of living, contrasting values, and the new imagining of a future. Deeply informative and filled with culture, the reader will finish this book with a sense of wonder. And awe.
Author Biography
Richard Napam was born and raised in Mt Hagen, Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea and educated there. He later graduated from the University of Papua New Guinea with a Bachelor of Economics degree. He works as an economist with the Bank of Papua New Guinea and lives in Port Moresby. He is from the Yano tribe in the Tambul Nebilyer district of the Western Highlands province of PNG. Stunned by Light is Napam’s first, and Award-winning, novel.
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