Lightland

WINNER OF FOUR BOOK AWARDS! He was living in ancient Africa but died when a plague wiped out his village. Now, millenia later, the virus has returned and is again threatening the world. Just when all seems lost, a mummy is unearthed that is immune to the virus. Scientists clone it, pulling him from his family in the afterlife -- Lightland -- and thrusting him back into a strange, modern world.