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As a vast island of rubbish crashes into the east coast of Taiwan, Alice, a grieving academic, meets Atile'i, a young man from a mythical island who arrived on it.
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The Whale Rider
In a Māori community on the east coast of New Zealand, Kahu, great-granddaughter of the chief, wants to lead, but he wants only a boy, and whales are stranding on the beach.
Bewilderment
A grieving father uses a neuroscience experiment to connect his son's mind to the natural world, and the boundary between human consciousness and nature dissolves.
Wild Dark Shore
Dominic Salt and his three children are the last caretakers of Shearwater, a remote island near Antarctica that houses a vault of the world's seeds, and as the seas rise around them, a mysterious woman washes up on the shore.
Augustown
On the day in 1982 when a teacher cuts off six-year-old Kaia's dreadlocks, his great-aunt Ma Taffy remembers the day in 1920 when a preacher was supposed to fly over Augustown in Kingston.
The Tiger's Wife
Natalia, a young doctor in an unnamed Balkan country after the wars, learns that her grandfather has died far from home, and goes back over the stories he told her of the tiger's wife and the deathless man.
Primeval and Other Times
The village of Primeval, guarded at its four borders by archangels, lives through the twentieth century, from the First World War into the 1980s, as its people and its spirits keep their own time.
Man Tiger
Margio, a young man in a seaside village in Java, kills a man, and the village tries to understand why, and whether it was the white tiger that lives inside him.
Sleepwalking Land
During Mozambique's civil war, an old man, Tuahir, and a boy, Muidinga, take shelter in a burnt-out bus, where the boy finds the notebooks of a dead man, Kindzu, and reads them aloud.
Confession of the Lioness
In Kulumani, a village in northern Mozambique, lions are killing women, and Archangel Bullseye, a hunter from the city, is sent to kill them, while Mariamar, whose sister was the latest victim, tells her own story.
Shallows
In Angelus, a West Australian whaling town in its last season, Queenie Cookson joins the protesters against the whalers, while her husband Cleve reads the journals of her great-grandfather.
Praiseworthy
In the small northern town of Praiseworthy, under a haze cloud that won't lift, Cause Man Steel dreams of moving goods across a warming world by donkey, while his son Tommyhawk dreams of a white future.
Playground
Four strangers on a Pacific island confront their pasts and each other, and the ocean becomes a stage for Powers' latest meditation on human connection and ecological grief.