Daring in both form and content, this novel of belief and betrayal shuttles between two connected moments in history and two countries linked by their colonial past and globalized present. The friends of a young student who has gone missing try to reconstruct his life as they search for him, and what emerges is a picture of a man insisting on a common humanity and finding ways to unify ideologies even as his world is being divided.About the Author: Ishtiyaq Shukri studies South Asian and Middle Eastern literature in London and is the first recipient of South Africa's new EU Literary Award for best first novel.