Would you engage in the ultimate taboo to stay alive?
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Ireland 1847, the country devastated by famine and emigration.
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In a desperate bid to escape and build a new life for himself, one man kills his brother and engages in the ultimate taboo to keep himself alive so he can make it to the boat.
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He escapes, travelling on a coffin ship to the New World.
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On the boat over, he shares a bunk with a Jesuit who dies on the crossing. The escapee takes on the identity of the priest.
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A new man in a new world, he has his whole life in front of him.
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However, the ghosts of the dead begin to whisper within him. It isn’t long before he is forced to question his very identity.
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Sent forth by the Jesuits as a missionary to Latin America, he finds himself among the Gaurani, an ancient and native tribe. Far from educating the natives, it is they who will educate him…
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Inducted into the ways of ritualism, soon the ‘priest’ is pulled irrevocably towards the ancient ways…
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Torn between love for a native woman and a powerful foe, the priest faces a brutal choice: embrace his true nature and grow stronger, or die.
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There is no destiny only will.
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SOME MEN EAT. SOME ARE EATEN.
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Notes from a Cannibalist is the sequel to Ultan Banan’s debut novel, Meat.
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