From the war-torn skies over Britain during the 2nd World War, the story transports us to the blood drenched desert sands of Victorian England’s campaign in the torrid Sudan and the monasteries of the Sketian desert, from which a military chaplain joins his brother in England, an academic who is struggling to preserve his marriage. The two dissimilar characters, whose paths have crossed again, envision a brighter future but they fail to see the spectre of the ghostly hand on the wall that conjures up the end of the world order as they know it…..
O autorze
Charles Hohmann was born in Alexandria (Egypt) on July 17, 1947. He attended primary and secondary school in Alexandria, Abingdon (Great Britain) and Switzerland. He studied English and French literature at the University of Fribourg (i. Ue). In 1982, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Zürich and wrote his doctoral thesis on the American author Thomas Pynchon. He worked as a secondary school teacher until his retirement.
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