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The New Wilderness: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020

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'THE ENVIRONMENTAL NOVEL OF OUR TIMES.' Lemn Sissay, Booker Prize judge

From a critically acclaimed author comes a searing novel about maternal love pushed to the brink by environmental crisis

'Brutal and beautiful in equal measure' (Emily St. John Mandel)

 

Bea's daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, her lungs ravaged by the smog and pollution of the overpopulated metropolis they call home.

The only alternative is to build a life in the vast expanse of untamed land known as The Wilderness State. No one has been allowed to venture here before. That is ... Read more

Passionate and exhilarating, The New Wilderness is the story of a mother's fight to save her daughter in a world she can no longer call her own.

Longlisted for the DUBLIN Literary Award 2022 * Guardian Best Science Fiction Book of the Year * A 'Best Book of the Year 2020' according to BBC Culture * An Irish Times Best Debut Fiction of 2020

 

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786078216
SKU
9781786078216
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-3

About Diane Cook
Diane Cook is a novelist and short story writer. Her collection, Man v. Nature (Oneworld, 2015), was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the L.A. Times Book Prize. Her stories have appeared in Harper's, Tin House and Granta, and been anthologised in Best American Short Stories. The New Wilderness is her debut novel. She lives in Brooklyn.

Reviews for The New Wilderness: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020
'The New Wilderness is a virtuosic debut, brutal and beautiful in equal measure.' Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel 'Soulful, urgent... Supremely well-crafted... What lingers, though, beyond the awesome power of Bea and Agnes as heroines, is pure wonderment at all in this world of ours that is not human.' Observer 'Wonderfully imagined and written, this ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The New Wilderness: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020


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