Darwin's Ghosts
ISBN-13: 9781609808242
Author(s): Ariel Dorfman
Subjects: FA, FBA
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publisher Imprint: Seven Stories Press
Publication Date: 22-11-2018
Format: Hardback
Availability: In stock
£20.00
About the book
The story of a man whose distant past comes to haunt him. Is the sordid story behind human zoos that flourished in Europe in the nineteenth century connected somehow to a boy's life a hundred years later? On Fitzroy Foster's fourteenth birthday on September 11, 1981, he receives an unexpected and unwelcome gift: when his father snaps his picture with a Polaroid, another person's image appears in the photo. Fitzroy and his childhood sweetheart, Cam, set out on a decade-long journey in search of this stranger's identity - and to reinstate his own - across seas and continents, into the far past and the evil and good that glint in the eyes of the elusive visitor.