Who Killed Piet Barol? B

Who Killed Piet Barol? BA Book of the Year The TimesA Book of the Year Observer A Book of the Year Mail on SundayAvoiding the chaos of the First World War, Piet Barol leaves the bustle of civilization and heads into Africa's greatest forest. With a business to build and secrets to escape, his only weapons are courage and intuition. His African guides have their own reasons for taking him to their ancestral lands. What he finds there changes him forever, and unleashes a chain

It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise

Aiden does

which is why he turns everything into a game

The characters in this extraordinary book are often - on the surface - depraved

During this time nobody saw or heard from their mother

But what constitutes snobbishness

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Two boys stand by as their father wages war on the raccoons living under their house

Of the millions of words written about this wrenching day

With no materials except a few trees and unlimited sand

and drunken family barbecues is uproarious to start

What starts as an uneventful year suddenly changes