Alexandria

Paul Kingsnorth author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Published:5th May '22

Should be back in stock very soon

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The visionary final novel in Paul Kingsnorth's iconic Buckmaster Trilogy - a timely and seminal portrait of climate apocalypse.

'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.

'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.

ISBN: 9780571322121

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 25mm

Weight: 343g

416 pages

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