Osborne is an ex-cop New Zealanders, in exile in Australia. Its past and its latest survey, haunt and is in the process of destroying at once to drugs and alcohol.
Yet suicide -auquel pas- he believes his friend, Fitzgerald, head of the Auckland police incentive to resume an investigation that will lead him to renew the son of his past.
It is in the Maori medium he knows well, Osborne will face his demons and try to escape the UTU, Maori cult of vengeance.
With Caryl ferey, we are not there to laugh. Anyway, when Maori red we see, right?
The climate and nature are oppressive, violence is everywhere. That of course characters, but also a time when with the completion time of repentance toward natives, begins the era of business.
Osborne is well tossed throughout the novel, constantly rejected both by his first love by his father, halfway between two civilizations clash.
My opinion?
Mixed. If Utu prepared Zulu, it will be retained in his defense because I think Ferey get worse fate than Maori Zulu country.
The fault lies undoubtedly its main protagonist, Paul Osborne, which I struggled to tie me. I was also disappointed to find, next to magnificent poetic brutality in their sessions, scenes somewhat limits of sex and violence, not very well written MOREOVER and a fairly complex plot, if not messy.
Recommended, therefore, but with reservations.