Alms for Oblivion

Vantage Press, Inc., New York, 1993 (first edition). Foxing to page edges, otherwise good secondhand condition.

An interestingly bold novel set in Samoa. It is the stor of a young man, Niko, and his tireless search to find justification for his existence. It leads him on a wild odyssey that begins in New Zealand and ends up in America.

Gripping and intense, Alms for Oblivion sheds a glaring, terrifying white light on the darkness of the human condition tht is almost mythical in its evocation of forces beyond the human experience.