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Souba's quest forces him to ponder his father's true identity: he might have been the all-powerful ruler of a vast African empire, yet who was the real man? Tsongor the builder? The explorer? The warrior and army commander? Tsongor the killer? Or Tsongor the father - the man who raised five children? All of them except Souba - sent far from his native city of Massaba, now besieged and in the grip of famine - are busy butchering each other. Tsongor's vast bequest is diminishing daily into the scorched earth of the bloody civil war that has been triggered by his death; an endless war that will see all Tsongor's achievements reduced to ashes.
205 pages, Paperback
First published November 20, 2002