Available: 1st August

Revolver Books

The History Channel is offering you the chance to win a copy of Gorilla Guerrilla by Nick Taussig.

In an African country, while civil war rages, Kibwe and Zuberi meet. Both are twelve years old, both are orphans; Kibwe’s parents killed in the name of war and Zuberi’s in the name of trade. Kibwe is a boy and Zuberi a gorilla. They are on the run: Kibwe, from the horrors he has committed as a child soldier, and Zuberi, from the violent hand of man. The former is desperate to reclaim his humanity; the latter, determined to have a family once more. Can they help one another get back what each has lost?

In this, his third novel, Nick Taussig constructs two parallel yet contrasting storylines - one with a boy soldier as narrator and the other a gorilla, a young silverback - in order to explore the best and worst of human nature in the light of our ape inheritance. These two strands gradually come together to produce a gripping, moving and provocative book.

His most ambitious novel to date, this work explores the powerful and challenging themes of human brutality, corruption, the abuse of the weak, and, most importantly, the relationship between man and the rest of nature.