The Tree of the Toraja by Euan Cameron, Philippe Claudel

The Tree of the Toraja

Euan Cameron, Philippe Claudel

176 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction emotional reflective slow-paced
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A middle-aged filmmaker visits Indonesia and becomes entranced by the Toraja custom of interning the bodies of very young deceased children in the trunks of trees. In time, the trunk heals, encasing and protecting the tiny bodies as the tree grows...

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