Only briefly do we meet the first, a farmer whose land and livelihood are ruined by drought. Sharing this tale with the bird are three curiously engaging women. That “struggle” is left to the imagination of the reader, as is much of the storyline, throughout which obfuscation, minimalism, and a creative timeline are mixed with some beautifully honed prose. It’s unclear what the military hopes to do with the bird, but perhaps the heron’s preternatural powers might give them an edge in their struggle. Its apparent magic becomes the subject of a deadly hunt by soldiers involved in a local uprising. The heron is incorporeal, made of water, though it can be netted and caged. The chapters are very loosely tied to a mythical bird whose appearance reverses a devastating drought in an unidentified rural land. Robbie Arnott is a prize-winning Tasmanian writer who has created in The Rain Heron a phantasmagoric tale in five parts.
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