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Lament for the Fallen
Gavin Chait
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Description for Lament for the Fallen
Paperback. A strange craft falls from the stars and crashes into the jungle near an isolated West African community. Inside, the locals discover the broken body of a man unlike any they have seen before. His name is Samara and he speaks with terror of a place called Tartarus - an orbiting prison where hope doesn't exist. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127. .
A strange craft falls from the stars and crashes into the jungle near an isolated West African community. Inside, the locals discover the broken body of a man unlike any they have seen before - a man who is perhaps something more than human. His name is Samara and he speaks with terror of a place called Tartarus - an orbiting prison where hope doesn't exist. As Samara begins to heal, he also transforms the lives his rescuers. But in so doing, he attracts the attention of a warlord whose gunmen now ... Read more
A strange craft falls from the stars and crashes into the jungle near an isolated West African community. Inside, the locals discover the broken body of a man unlike any they have seen before - a man who is perhaps something more than human. His name is Samara and he speaks with terror of a place called Tartarus - an orbiting prison where hope doesn't exist. As Samara begins to heal, he also transforms the lives his rescuers. But in so doing, he attracts the attention of a warlord whose gunmen now ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784161330
SKU
V9781784161330
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-28
About Gavin Chait
Born in Cape Town in 1974, Gavin Chait emigrated to the UK nearly ten years ago. He has degrees in Microbiology & Biochemistry, and Electrical Engineering. He is an economic development strategist and data scientist, and has travelled extensively in Africa, Latin America, Europe and Asia and is now based in Oxford. His first novel, Lament for the Fallen, was ... Read more
Reviews for Lament for the Fallen
Refreshingly different . . . exhilarating . . . a compulsively readable, life-affirming tale told in direct, lambent prose, and Chait does a masterful job of juxtaposing a traditional African setting with a convincing depiction of a far-future alien society.
Eric Brown
GUARDIAN
Lyrical prose and imaginative world-building . . . the book is gripping, ... Read more
Eric Brown
GUARDIAN
Lyrical prose and imaginative world-building . . . the book is gripping, ... Read more