Jakob Ejersbo – författare

The novel behind the new Danish TV series starring The Killing''s Sofie Gråbøl, available on All 4 / Walter PresentsTwo young men from very different backgrounds. Christian is the son of Danish ex-pats; Marcus works as a house boy for a Swedish family, hoping they will eventually take him back to Europe with them. Their friendship defines a divided continent. When they decide to go into business together - a teenage dream of playing at discos - they unwittingly set a collision course. But will it be love or money that tears the two apart? Spanning a decade from the dawn of the 1980s, the story of Marcus and Christian''s dissolving friendship plays out amid a vast cast of characters, all fighting to make their way in a country defined by corruption. As the Tanzanian authorities and European aid agencies compete to line their own pockets, the rise of ''the disease'' threatens to lay waste to an already stricken continent.

For the vagabond pack of ex-pat Europeans, Indian Tanzanians and wealthy Africans at Moshi''s International School, it''s all about getting high, getting drunk and getting laid. Their parents - drug dealers, mercenaries and farmers gone to seed - are too dead inside to give a damn. Outwardly free but empty at heart, privileged but out of place, these kids are lost, trapped in a land without hope. They can try to get out, but something will always drag them back - where can you go when you believe in nothing and belong to nowhere? Exile is the first of three powerful novels about growing up as an ex-pat in Tanzania. Ejersbo''s first novel, Nordkraft, the Danish Trainspotting, was a phenomenal bestseller. Ejersbo''s trilogy, only published after his death in 2008, has proved to be another cult and critical sensation.