Tears of the Brain

“We yearn to live, yet living frustrates us; we yearn to strive higher, yet striving frustrates us; we yearn for progress, yet progress frustrates us. Truly, life is nothing but a race that everyone wants to win.” Follow the shenanigans of two schemers who set two traditional Kopa kings against each other, with the resultant warfare and civil lawsuits. This non-chronological narrative set in the mid 1800s weaves together tales of domestic and royal matters, war and diviners, and the arrival of people with hawkeyes (binoculars) and magic sticks that shoot buffalo