Alexandria
About this book
'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 Buccmaster Trilogy, which began with Kingsnorth's prize-winning
The Wake.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- First epigraph
- Second epigraph
- Contents
- Prologue
- Sikkel Moon
- Lady Moon
- Shell Moon
- Blak Moon
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- By the Same Author
- Copyright
