A fascinating & comprehensive guide to the sun
- our home star
- which remains the greatest mystery in the solar system,

' Much more than a portrait of a Congolese herd boy who becomes an important military man, it is a portrait of a vast & chaotic country in a state of near-anarchy. I have long admired Lieve Joris's African books, but this one is both powerful & timely, intensely imagined.' Paul Theroux