THE GLOBAL LITERARY QUEST BESTSELLER 'A masterpiece' The Times 'The style as well as the sweep is Bolaño-esque' Observer Paris, 2018. Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer, discovers a legendary book titled The Labyrinth of Inhumanity. It has an immediate hold over him. No one knows what happened to the author, T.C. Elimane, who was accused of plagiarism, his reputation destroyed by the critics.