In the Country of Last Things
Author: Paul Auster
Translator: Hee-gi Yun
Publisher: Yeollinchaekdeul
Hardcover / 286 pages
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About This Book
In a book-length letter home, Anna Blume reports that her search for a long-lost
brother has brought her to a vast, unnamed city that is undergoing a
catastrophic economic decline. Buildings collapse daily, driving huge numbers of
citizens into the streets, where they starve or die of exposureif they aren't
murdered by other vagrants first. Government forces haul away the bodies, and
licensed scavengers collect trash and precious human waste. Weird cults form
around the most popular methods of suicide. Anna tries to help, but the charity
group she joins quickly runs out of supplies and has to close its doors. A
number of post-apocalyptic novels have been published recently; Auster's, one of
the best, is distinguished by an uncanny grasp of the day-to-day realities of
homelessness. This is a scary but highly relevant book. -- Edward B. St. John
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