The Red Ants

It's Easter time and families are coming together for the holidays. Sixteen-year-old Mole's life in the sleepy, peaceful fishing town of Ratthole is about to change forever as the community is plunged into the ethnic violence that is sweeping through the country. Throughout every neighbourhood, lines are being drawn up according to one's ancestral origins. But Mole, his own past uncertain and surrounded by friends from both sides of the divide, is caught in the middle. Like many of those around him, he will have to make a stark choice: to join the hunters or become one of the hunted. 'The Red Ants' is the latest explosive novel from the author of 'Divinity Road'. It traces the course of events leading up to a horrifying genocide, and explores the struggle between human strength and frailty that can allow such tragedies to occur. As the events unfold, you are forced, as reader, to question whether acts of genocide could ever take place in your community, and how you would react in such circumstances.