Zusatztext 'The first part of a powerful trilogy' Charlotte Vowden! Daily Express. Informationen zum Autor Jakob Ejersbo was born in Aalborg in 1968. He trained as a journalist, and his breakthrough came with the 2002 novel Nordkraft , which won the Golden Bay prize in 2003. He died in 2008 at the age of forty, after a ten-month battle with cancer. Klappentext For the vagabond pack of ex-pat Europeans, Indian Tanzanians and wealthy Africans at Moshi''s International School, it''s all about getting high, getting drunk and getting laid. Their parents - drug dealers, mercenaries and farmers gone to seed - are too dead inside to give a damn. Outwardly free but empty at heart, privileged but out of place, these kids are lost, trapped in a land without hope. They can try to get out, but something will always drag them back - where can you go when you believe in nothing and belong to nowhere? Zusammenfassung The first novel in a major trilogy exposing the guilt! loneliness and nihilism of the ex-pat experience in post-colonial Africa.

'The first part of a powerful trilogy' Charlotte Vowden, Daily Express.

Autorentext

Jakob Ejersbo was born in Aalborg in 1968. He trained as a journalist, and his breakthrough came with the 2002 novel Nordkraft, which won the Golden Bay prize in 2003. He died in 2008 at the age of forty, after a ten-month battle with cancer.

Klappentext

For the vagabond pack of ex-pat Europeans, Indian Tanzanians and wealthy Africans at Moshi''s International School, it''s all about getting high, getting drunk and getting laid. Their parents - drug dealers, mercenaries and farmers gone to seed - are too dead inside to give a damn.

Outwardly free but empty at heart, privileged but out of place, these kids are lost, trapped in a land without hope. They can try to get out, but something will always drag them back - where can you go when you believe in nothing and belong to nowhere?

Zusammenfassung
The first novel in a major trilogy exposing the guilt, loneliness and nihilism of the ex-pat experience in post-colonial Africa.