![]() He speaks, or has spoken, seven languages fluently and is currently learning Thai, since he lives in Thailand with his Thai wife of ten years. He has lived and worked in several countries and travelled in many, many more. What will become of Heng, his family and the rest of the community, if he takes the Shaman’s advice? Read moreĪuthor Owen Jones, from Barry, South Wales, came to writing novels relatively recently, although he has been writing all his adult life. The battle is on to save Heng’s life, but there are other forces at work too. The Shaman takes some specimens and comes to the conclusion that Heng’s kidneys have stopped functioning and so has little time left to live. ![]() There are no medical doctors in the vicinity and the Shaman has been good enough for most people for centuries. ![]() Heng gets sick all of a sudden, but not too sick to take the goats out, until one day he has to go to see the local shaman, because he has started fainting. ![]() It is a tight-knit community where everyone knows one another. Heng Lee is a goatherd in the remote mountains north-east of Chiang Rai in northern Thailand, very close to the border with Laos. She carries out a few tests and decides that Heng has no blood, but how is he going to tell his family, and what will they do about it? Heng Lee starts to feel very strange all of a sudden, so he calls in to see the local shaman, who happens to be his aunt. ![]()
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