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It is 1914. In the heart of the Belgian Congo, Garvey, a bedraggled British manservant, emerges from the jungle. He is the lone survivor of a mining expedition in which both his masters have died, and all of the party's African porters have fled. With him, he carries two huge diamonds.
From his prison cell in London, Garvey recounts his horrific and thrilling ordeal. Young Tommy Thomson is assigned to transcribe Garvey's story and only he can untangle the extraordinary mysteries of the Garvey case.
Price: $18.00
Pages: 448
Publisher: Canongate Books
Imprint: Canongate Books
Publication Date:
21 February 2023
Trim Size: 7.80 X 5.12 in
ISBN: 9781847671240
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Modern and contemporary fiction, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / World Literature / Spain / General, FICTION / Action & Adventure, Fiction in translation
A literary dynamite charge.
Albert Sanchez Pinol was born in Barcelona in 1965. He is an anthropologist, non-fiction writer and novelist writing in Catalan and Castilian Spanish. His first novel, Cold Skin, has been translated into thirty-seven languages, won the Ojo Critico Narrativa prize on its original publication in Catalan in 2003 and is being adapted for film. He is also the author of Pandora in the Congo, among other books. He is based in Barcelona.