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This is a remarkable collection in which Paul Hastings Wilson, author of The Ishango Bone, In the Wilderness of Zin, Hunger's Season and Turning Islands, employs an impressive ear for dialogue, acuity of observation and uncanny psychological insight to take the reader on a journey that stretches from North Africa to New York to New Orleans. The range of stories plumbs some of the most harrowing, bizarre and resonant byways of the human experience, including questions of justice and morality in the aftermath of a bloody revolution in North Africa, a poignant murder mystery in the heart of the...

This is the fascinating story of a brilliant, bewitching and enigmatic woman and the price she pays for daring to solve the greatest mystery of the mathematical world. Starting from obscure and humble beginnings in North Africa, she defies convention and rises in the contentious, male-dominated field of abstract mathematics to become a world-renowned number theorist. But she soon finds herself persona non grata among her colleagues, vilified in the public press and detained on suspicion of terrorism, her discovery considered a threat to the security of world governments and international...