The rainmaker's daughter

Two hopeless loves. The first one begins in a mood of sophisticated ease, at a chic Jakarta wine bar where seduction flows like champagne: Hadrian, a bored, lonely attorney, falls in with a woman with no name, no past, and many beguiling past. Yet their affair soon becomes unimaginably complex, as the lady in question reveals herself to be tormented by powerful, inchoate passions which may not be entirely of this world.

The other love is taboo, an obsession conceived in feverish secrecy by a man charged with carrying out the sentence of an ancient island curse. When Hadrian pursues his mysterious lover to a remote beachside village in Kalimantan, the two forbidden loves collide, and tragedy ensues, as madness and death fall like a silent scream from the unblemished azure sky.

The Rainmaker's Daughter continues Richard Oh's bold series of novels exploring life and love, passion and betrayal, in Reformasi-era Indonesia. In the tradition of The Pathfinders of Love, Oh shows with unflinching realism how primordial passions seethe just below the surface of the modern nation, in a suspenseful tale that reaches out from the enclaves of Jakarta's power elite to the remote corners of the tropical archipelago.

The Rainmaker's Daughter is a required reading for anyone interested in discovering the inner life of the great island nation.