Overview
‘Like Robert Macfarlane re-written by Cormac McCarthy.’ Telegraph
‘Beckett doing Beowulf.’ London Review of Books
One thousand years from now, the sole inhabitants of a small island – a group no larger than an extended family – are living in a post-civilised world. They are perhaps the Earth''s only human survivors.
But lurking outside their isolated community is a figure in red, an emissary from another way of life: a virtual place of refuge and security, of escape from the dangers of a newly wild world. The visitor calls it Alexandria.
A work of radical and matchless imagination, Paul Kingsnorth’s new novel is a mythical, polyphonic drama driven by elemental themes: of community versus the self, the mind versus the body, machine over man; whether to put your faith in the present or the future.
Set on the far side of the climate apocalypse, Alexandria completes the Buckmaster Trilogy, which began with Kingsnorth’s prize-winning The Wake.
- | Author: Paul Kingsnorth
- | Publisher: Faber & Faber
- | Publication Date: May 05, 2022
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780571322121
- | ISBN-10: 0571322123
