‘Little World' is the brief, transporting story of a young saint
The body arrives in the Australian desert sometime after World War II, a bequest sent to a solitary man named Orrin Bird by an old friend, a guilt-stricken expatriate Norwegian who had held onto the saint's remains for a quarter-century.
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