A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels with little direction, letting the chance encounters of the road dictate his path. But although he knows that he is drifting, he is unable to settle. The people he travels with shape his purpose - as if he can exist only in the eyes of others. And yet each journey ends in disaster.

A novel of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion, In a Strange Room is an extraordinary evocation of one man`s search for love, and for a place to call home.