About the Author

Henry Shukman has worked as a trombonist, a trawlerman and a travel writer. His fiction has won an Arts Council Award and has been a finalist for the O. Henry Award. His first poetry collection, In Dr. No’s Garden, won the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and was a Book of the Year in The Times (London) and The Guardian. He lives in New Mexico.

Reviews

“Immensely entertaining.”—The New York Times Book Review“Fearless, brilliantly realized. . . . Henry Shukman is a gifted writer.” —The Los Angeles Times“A comic gem. . . . The tropical setting, simultaneously gorgeous and debilitating, is expertly evoked.”—The Independent“Shukman’s writing is what marks him out. He’s superb, like Conrad on speed.” —Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland