Islands of the dying light
By: Rolf Lappert ; translated from the German by Eugene H. Hayworth
Publisher: Owl Canyon Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boulder, Colorado
Language: eng
Number of pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780983476412
Subjects: Rock musicians; Fiction; Animal rights activists; Brothers and sisters; Insel; Rockmusiker; Suche; Schwester
Work titles: Auf den Inseln des letzten Lichts
Description: Tobey and his older sister Megan, raised in poverty in Ireland, are abandoned by their mother while Tobey is still a baby. Years later, Tobey sets off for Dublin. He does not return to the village until he learns about the death of his father; when Tobey arrives for the funeral he discovers that Megan has already departed. The story alternates between Tobey's search for his sister, and a series of letters from Megan that document her life in London as an animal rights activist, her marriage and divorce, and her work as a veterinarian on a sparsely populated island in the Philippines. Tobey follows in his sister's footsteps, but when he finally arrives on the island, Megan has vanished. In his effort to unravel the mystery of her disappearance, Tobey discovers a sinister purpose behind the island's dilapidated laboratories and its enigmatic inhabitants.