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Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, International Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9781529929720
Published: September 2026
Imprint: Vintage
Page Extent: 304
Format: Paperback
RRP 295.00

In the Green Heart

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A father is stranded with his baby daughter as violence breaks out in the jungle, in this page-turning and explosive new novel
'Brilliant...heartbreaking...utterly compelling' David Peace

Deep in a tropical rain forest, Kit and Lara escape modern life by dedicating themselves to charity work and raising their baby, Helen. But their idyllic isolation is shattered when an outsider arrives with frightening news: across the border, violence is looming.

Kit unwittingly holds evidence, hidden in a memory card, of a world-shattering event that is unfolding. Separated from Lara and with war erupting around them, he and Helen are forced to flee through the forest, hunted by a ruthless army.

Caught between the struggle of rival powers, Kit must...

About the Author

Richard Lloyd Parry

Richard Lloyd Parry

Richard Lloyd Parry is Asia Editor of The Times. He was born in 1969 and was educated at Oxford. He has been visiting Asia for eighteen years and since 1995 has lived in Tokyo as a foreign correspondent, first for the Independent and now for The Times. He has reported from twenty-one countries and several wars, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, East Timor, North Korea, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Kosovo and Macedonia. His work has also appeared in the London Review of Books and the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of In The Time of Madness, an eyewitness account of the violence that interrupted in Indonesia in the 1990s, and People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman.

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