![]() ![]() Harker, sensing that Ren knows more than she’s letting on, begins a campaign of terror her coercion of Ren takes the form of strategic despoliation of the wilderness – Ren’s home. ![]() The soldiers are on a search for a rain heron, thought by many to be a myth. Soon, though, her isolation is disturbed by a group of soldiers led by the charismatic and ruthless Lieutenant Harker. Ren, seeking to escape the world, has for the past half-decade made her home in a small, wild corner of this place. Set in an unnamed country that has recently undergone a violent coup, Robbie Arnott’s The Rain Heron is a novel of a land suffused with wild animal magic: a heron that can create vast storms a species of squid whose ink has miraculous properties and must be harvested through sanguine ritual. ![]()
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