At the end of the world, Keatown is already struggling for existence. Then come the driftdead Dead like zombies, but with no interest in eating human flesh, and driven by a force beyond hunger. "Driftdead is as canny a book about the uncanny as you would want to read. Past and future stream; our catastrophic present is registered with hallucinatory clarity: haunting characters from a small Aotearoan town speak the rhapsodies of...