By the Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's Ark, a bold, millennia-spanning novel about community, mortality, and what it means to be human.
The Booker-winning author of "Schindler's Ark" tells the stories of two men with a lot in common, living 42,000 years apart. A peaceable man considers whether he can bring himself to fight to save his tribe. A modern day documentarian is inspired by this character's example.
[T]he parallels between the two [men] are engaging . . . [an] elegiac novel . . . with its joyful descriptions of Shade's family, his songs, his gods and the "flame of praise" he feels under the stars, and of the huge creatures - the razor-toothed great lizard, the giant kangaroo - that he and his clan hunt amongst the saltbush.
