The House Of Rust - A Novel Condition:Good 5 billion people competing for

5 billion people competing for this single unevenly-distributed resource

The final chapters deal with knowledge from the point of view of the individual reader

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to ultimately create something complex

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The House Of Rust - A Novel Condition:Good 5 billion people competing forThe first Graywolf Press Africa Prize winner, a story of a girls fantastical sea voyage to rescue her father The House of Rust is an enchanting novel about a Hadrami girl in Mombasa. When her fisherman father goes missing, Aisha takes to the sea on a magical boat made of a skeleton to rescue him. She is guided by a talking scholars cat (and soon crows, goats, and other animals all have their say, too). On this journey Aisha meets three terrifying sea