Lament for the Fallen - Hardcover

Chait, Gavin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857523694 ISBN 13: 9780857523693

Verlag: Doubleday, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

'Father, tell me a story?' asks Isaiah, moments before a strange craft falls from the sky and smashes into the jungle near his isolated West African community. Inside the ruined vessel the villagers find the shattered body of a man. His name is Samara and he is a man unlike any the villagers have seen before - a man who is perhaps something more than human. With his city home of Achenia hiding in the rubble left by a devastating war, Samara has fallen 35,000 km to earth in order to escape the automated hell of an orbiting prison called Tartarus. As he struggles to heal himself, he helps transform the lives of those who rescued him but in so doing attracts the attention of the brutal warlord who rules over this benighted, ravaged post-21st century land. He is not a man to be crossed, and now he threatens the very existence of the villagers themselves and the one, slim chance Samara has of finding his way home and to the woman - and the world - he loves. And all the while - in the darkness above - waits the simmering fury that lies at the heart of Tartarus . . .

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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 critically acclaimed (Eric Brown in the Guardian called it ‘a compulsively readable, life affirming tale’). Our Memory Like Dust is his second.

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'They had played another song last night. One he called the Lament for the Fallen. The song had been sad and mournful, as of something passed and forever lost...'

Something has fallen from the stars and crashed into the jungle near an isolated West African community. The locals discover a ruined vessel and, inside, the shattered body of a man. But this is 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 – a place where hope doesn’t exist. To go there is to face death, one way or another.

As Samara heals himself, he helps transform the lives of those who rescued him, but in so doing attracts the attention of the warlord who would rule this benighted land. Now this butcher and his gunmen threaten the very existence of the villagers themselves – and the one, slim chance Samara has of finding his way home.

And all the while, in the darkness above, waits the simmering fury that lies at the heart of Tartarus . . .

Shot through with hope and possessing a transcendent sense of wonder, this thrilling debut signals the arrival of a remarkable new voice.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Doubleday
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0857523694
• ISBN 13: 9780857523693
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 384
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