Garlands of Moonlight

Silent and merciless, a creature of darkness has cometo prey on an island village. Babies vanish, mothers aremurdered, and the threat of evil grows with each night. The villagebecomes a battleground as the onrush of the twentieth century clasheswith tradition--and the restless spirits of the island's mythicalpast... Set in late colonial Indonesia in 1910, Garlandsof Moonlight relates the story of a village ravaged by the dualthreats of modernity and an ancient, supernatural evil. The travelingherbalist Marsiti is at the center of the conflict, helped (but mostlyhindered) by Hidayat, the village's rational, no-nonsenseschoolteacher. The book's high production values, including theuse of special formulations of black and silver inks and the use ofhigh-definition stochastic (FM) printing technology, mimic the quaintfeel of a collection of turn-of-the-century daguerreotype photographs.