"When a massive earthquake hits, a pregnant woman must make excruciating decisions toward survival in this riveting, powerfully moving, debut novel set over the course of one day"-- Provided by publisher.

"In a deserted village, an unnamed young man waits for an opportunity to escape. Society has been militarised, the dead lie unburied and thugs patrol the land. As he waits, he marks the days that pass and writes to his lover Boris, with whom he shares an animal desire. In a series of impassioned dispatches, Napalm in the Heart unearths what it means to survive when language and nature fail, to refuse to give up when everything is lost"-- Provided...