When Adam moves into the broken shack on the dusty edge of town, he is hoping to recover from the loss of his job and his home in the city. But when he meets Canning, a shadowy figure from his childhood, and Canning's enigmatic and beautiful wife, a sinister new chapter in his life begins. Canning has inherited a vast fortune and built for himself a giant walled fantasy land in the veld, a palace of dreams that seduces Adam and transforms him absolutely, violently - and forever. Damon Galgut's magnificent new novel evokes a hot and cruel and claustrophobic world, in which sex and death are never far from the surface. It is his most unforgettable novel.