Super Short Summary

The protagonist of The Emperor of Any Place by Tim Wynne-Jones is a teenager named Evan, who finds a mysterious book after his father’s sudden death. This book, forming a novel-within-a-novel, tells the story of two soldiers stranded on a South Pacific island at the close of World War II, intertwining their supernatural experiences with Evan's struggle to understand his father's past and his own present grief. The novel includes elements of war, death, and family dysfunction.