A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. Hetravels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom hemeets on the way — including a handsome, enigmatic stranger, a groupof careless backpackers and a woman on the edge — he is the Follower,the Lover and the Guardian. Yet, despite the man's best intentions, eachjourney ends in disaster. Together, these three journeys will change hiswhole life. A novel of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion, In a StrangeRoom is the hauntingly beautiful evocation of one man's search for love,and a place to call home.