The Capital of Latecomers - Softcover

Local folklore tells the story of an ancient people wandering through the desert, discovering an oasis-like paradise. But they stayed for too long, and when they returned home all their loved ones were dead. These people are forever known as the “latecomers.” Now an exclusive compound providing residents with complete and utter privacy stands on the site where their village once was. Rhein, a thirty-year-old former darling of the art world, has lost his confidence and chosen the life of a recluse. When a body turns up in Rhein’s studio, he has no choice but to come out of his yearlong seclusion to prove his innocence. More deaths occur, and the evidence incriminating Rhein is so convincing he honestly doesn’t know what to believe. Working with his eccentric neighbors, all of whom are also hiding from their pasts, he finds that the path to the truth careens through tribal folklore and quantum physics, and nothing is as it seems.

Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, Nina Nenova is the author of seven novels. The Capital of Latecomers is her latest, first published in 2013. Her work was included on the Eurocon/Bulgacon list of Science Fiction Books of the Decade in the late 1990s. For the past ten years, Nenova has worked in seclusion, having contact with the outside world only through her family and literary agent.