Turaki Umar - Such A Beautiful Thing To Behold A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: An inexplicable sickness. A small town cut off from the world. An unexpected community of survivors forges a family out of the despair struggling against things known and unknown for survival and hope. A mysterious plague known as the Grey grips the small village of Pilam which the world has quarantined without pity. Laying waste to Pilam's residents the sickness saps its victims of strength drains the color from their eyes and kills all promise. Only the young are immune. But beyond the barricades and walls of soldiers the manifestation of a nation's terror there are rumors of a cure. Dunka the eldest son of a family reeling from the Grey takes on the daunting task of leaving Pilam to find that cure for his siblings and save them before it's too late. His brother and sisters however have plans of their own. Navigating the chaos of violence hunger and death each of them tries to make sense of the bleak circumstances forging new bonds with other juvenile survivors left to their own devices. Now an unlikely family of six they choose their own perilous paths at first separately and then together coming to terms with the decisions they make and the ghosts they cannot leave behind. Umar Turaki's gripping novel is a story of survival love and the human spirit's tenacious capacity for wonder.
Title: Such A Beautiful Thing To Behold A Novel
Author(s): Turaki Umar
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Barcode: 9781542034678
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 5/1/2022
Category: Science Fiction