In an epic, far-future science fiction novel from an award-winning author, humanity clings to life on a dying Earth. The sun is bloated, diseased, and possibly dying. Shadrapar, the last of all cities, houses fewer than 100,000 human souls beneath its ominous light. Shadrapar, built on the ruins of numerous civilisations, is a museum, a midden, an asylum, and a prison on a world that is becoming increasingly alien to humanity. Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor, bears witness to the desperate struggle for survival between old and new life. This is his testament, an account of the journey that led him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts, transported him east down the river, and imprisoned him in the verdant hell of the jungle's dungeons.