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?

"'There is more to contemporary Scandinavian fiction than thrillers' Michael Arditti, Daily Mail." - Daily Mail

"'This fine epic of loneliness and alienation in a beautiful land that seems to be sinking shows that he was a writer of huge talent' Kate Saunders, The Times." - The Times

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