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Oyster

Set in a wild west opal town in the Australian outback, this novel is the story of a cult messiah, Oyster 2000. The scene is set for a headlong drive to the kind of holocaust that happened at Waco and Guyana, but in Maroo, population 87, the town itself metes out its own justice.

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  • "Set in a wild west opal town in the Australian outback, this novel is the story of a cult messiah, Oyster 2000. The scene is set for a headlong drive to the kind of holocaust that happened at Waco and Guyana, but in Maroo, population 87, the town itself metes out its own justice."@en
  • "Stories do insist on being told. Even the stories of hidden lives and towns and opal reefs. By cunning intention, and sometimes by discreet bribery of government surveyors, Outer Maroo has kept itself off maps. And yet people do stumble into town, because the seduction of nowhere is hard to resist. Two strangers reach town, searching for a stepdaughter and a son who have mysteriously disappeared."@en
  • "Outer Maroo, un trou perdu de l'Etat du Queensland en Australie. Depuis le seul magasin dans la grande rue, Mercy Given, l'adolescente pure, et Jess, l'aborigène silencieuse, observent l'arrivée de deux étrangers à la recherche, l'un de son fils, l'autre de sa belle-fille. Où et pourquoi ont-ils disparu ?"
  • "Two strangers reach an opal mining town in Queenland's outback searching for a stepdaughter and son who have mysteriously disappeared."@en
  • "The awful secrets kept by the residents of the remote Australian town of Outer Maroo are finally revealed when a couple arrives searching for their children who have become followers of Oyster, a sinister, fanatical cult leader."@en
  • "In the Australian outback, a cult leader lures idealistic young people to his compound, then puts them to work digging for opal. A tale of exploitation, rape and murder, told in part by parents looking for their missing children. By the author of The Last Magician."

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Large type books"@en

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  • "Oyster : Roman DuMont"
  • "Oyster : [a novel]"
  • "L'opale du désert"
  • "Oyster : Roman"
  • "Oyster"
  • "Oyster"@en
  • "De zevende engel"
  • "L'opale du désert : roman"

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