Set in Tanzania this atmospheric novel finds Moses wandering
through the remote East African wilderness lost, hungry, and about
to die. He is nine years old, a homeless street kid from the port
city Dar es Salaam, and he has just buried his best friend.
Attempting to flee the city violence and coaxed by the memory of
his dead father, who dreamed of returning with him to the rural
farm lands, Moses and his friend Kioso accept a ride from a
disturbed stranger: a decision that eventually separates the boys.
Searching for his lost companion, Moses journeys to the regiments
of a rural orphanage and finally to the hallucinatory state of
starvation as he curls under a tree in a dry wilderness to give up,
but an unlikely cast of characters--the prostitute Grace; the shop
owner Mama Tesha; the crippled fruit vendor; and the Ndorobo
hunter-gatherer, Toroye--saves Moses from certain death, shelters
him, and exposes him to a way of life and value system different
from anything he has ever known. A stirring novel that juxtaposes
urban homelessness with societies found in the wild, this work
reminds readers that even amid places of violence and indifference,
human compassion can be found.
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