Who and where is the missing King? And what of his people - how will they reclaim their past in a world that is layered and wrapped in the history of others? Moetai Brotherson's sweeping and witty novel addresses these weighty matters through the voices of two very different heroes - Vaki, a gifted chess-playing Marquesan mute and Philippe, the French psychologist who commandeers his story.

Translated by Jean Anderson.