Darwin's Ghosts

The story of a man whose distant past comes to haunt him. Is the sordid story behind human zoos that flourished in Europe in the nineteenth century connected somehow to a boy''s life a hundred years later? On Fitzroy Foster''s fourteenth birthday on September 11, 1981, he receives an unexpected and unwelcome gift: when his father snaps his picture with a Polaroid, another person''s image appears in the photo. Fitzroy and his childhood sweetheart, Cam, set out on a decade-long journey in search of this stranger''s identity - and to reinstate his own - across seas and continents, into the far past and the evil and good that glint in the eyes of the elusive visitor.