An American scientist, lecturing on cholera in Bombay, visits a makeshift hospital and makes a decision that will change her life forever. A carpenter sits in the Australian beach house he built for his adored wife, hearing strange noises in the walls. An aid worker in war-torn Africa watches, powerless, as a mission church, filled with people, is burned to the ground. John Murray's extraordinary stories unfold to reveal whole lives - people caught between the past and the present, between different cultures, and between their intellect and emotions. Muscular, atmospheric, by turns hilarious, horrifying and unbearably moving, these stories show their author to be a formidably talented writer.
- ISBN10 0670913480
- ISBN13 9780670913480
- Publish Date 29 May 2003 (first published 4 March 2003)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 January 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Viking
- Edition Open market ed
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 352
- Language English