The Colonial Hotel: A Novel

This devastating tale of love and war is "in Graham Greene territory . . . A solid novel on morality in our not-quite-postcolonial world" (The Globe and Mail, Toronto).

A doctor and a nurse, Paris and Helen, are doing humanitarian work in a nation on the brink of civil war. They have also fallen in love with each other—and Helen is pregnant with their child.

Then, a confrontation breaks out and they are swept up by rebel forces and separated. One is imprisoned while the other escapes...