On the River Styx

“These compelling tales of elemental fear and ever-pressing silence culminate in the great, dark and desperate final story, a masterful piece of work by one of our best writers” – Don Delillo

These stories by the author of The Snow Leopard and The Tree Where Man Was Born are tales of brooding power and sudden emotional violence. In the title story, a tourist couple triggers the deep-rooted racism of a sleepy town in the Southern States. In “The Wolves of Aguila”, a hunter tracking two gray wolves down on the Mexican border finds himself stalked by death in a desert wasteland. And in the magnificent final story, “Lumumba Lives”, a CIA-man released early from an ignoble career in Africa, struggles violently and in vain to find himself again in his own country.