Charlies wife Anna director of bioinformatics at the National ScienceFoundation and well known for her hyperrational intensity is entranced by theKhembalis. By ... » 

Charlies wife Anna director of bioinformatics at the National ScienceFoundation and well known for her hyperrational intensity is entranced by theKhembalis. By contrast her colleague Frank Vanderwal is equally cynicalabout the Buddhists and the NSF. The profound effect the Khembali ambassadorhas on both Charlie and Frank could never have been predicted unlike theabrupt catastrophic climate change which is about to transform everything.Forty Signs of Rain is an unforgettable tale of survival which captures a worldwhere even the innocent pattern of rainfall resounds with the destiny of thebiosphere. «