New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - A short but powerful novel by this award-winning writer. Two men, who had once made a lot of illicit cash from diamonds, reunite in Freetown, Sierra Leone, with Michaels fianc along for the adventure. Partly this in the hope of making another illicit fortune, but even more it is because of Michael's desperate search for his long-lost village in the Uganda-Congo borderland -a land "abandoned by the future." 228 pp. ISBN: 978-0374280598.