About the book: year / The Dark World of the Salty Lands. A world where the night is eleven times longer than the day. A world in which hating is as natural as breathing. A world in which indifference to the grief, pain or death of another is a common defensive reaction. A world in which God cares just as much about people fumbling in the darkness as he does about yesterday’s candle stub. And in this world he is trying to survive, at least to survive - just a boy.