The Boy Who Found Salt

<p class=ql-align-justify><em>'One day a child saw something glisten in the drying mud white and tiny as a star in the night sky. It sparkled in the sun but when a brave man tasted it it was salt bitter as bile. Thenceforth every day as the water retreated the white crystals sprang on the surface of the drying mud and a foul stench spread over the lake for the salt was poison.'</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Blamed for the disaster that has overwhelmed his lakeside home the boy Tark is forced to flee. Deep in the desert he finds a hidden valley inhabited by another people who spare his life because he is so young. He learns to assimilate into their culture but when survivors of his own clan arrive he faces an irresolvable dilemma. </p><p class=ql-align-justify><br></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Set in no particular place or time <em>The Boy Who Found Salt </em>is an unputdownable story of environmental disaster superstition and survival.</p><p><br></p>