The Secret Book of Sacred Things
- 295 pages
- 11 hours of reading
A fantastic journey into a post-apocalyptic world, seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl, told by a master storyteller.





A fantastic journey into a post-apocalyptic world, seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl, told by a master storyteller.
Life of Pi meets Lord of the Flies in The Dolphin People , a darkly comic “postmodern novel par excellence” ( Sydney Morning Herald ) from Torsten Krol, the author of the critically acclaimed Callisto . While fleeing Germany after World War II, a family arrives in Venezuela and encounters a Stone Age Amazon tribe that mistakes them for dolphins in human form. But the ruse can only protect them for so long in this madcap, imaginative tale.
This blackly funny novel of our times follows what happens when Odell Deefus takes one wrong turn on the journey of his life and crashes into a world of oddballs, misfits, drug-dealers, religious fanatics and crooked cops, hypocrisy, torture and bloody murder.