Both Sides
Lorna Sage, 5 October 1995
“... publishing). His Melanesian opposite number, the witch doctor and shaman Njiru, who foresees the death of his beliefs, tells Rivers his secrets so that they can be carried off in words, and survive. The first-person written account that Prior is given in The Ghost Road had to be invented, because none of the natives of no man’s land wrote about it in this ... ”