Far North

ISBN: 1554682975

Author: Theroux, Marcel

Condition: New

Out on the far northern border of a failed state, a lone survivor, Makepeace, patrols the ruins of a dying city. Into this cold, isolated world walks the evidence that life is flourishing elsewhere -- a refugee from the vast emptiness of forest, an individual whose very existence inspires Makepeace to take to the road to reconnect with human society.What Makepeace finds is a world that is unravelling -- stockaded villages enforcing a rough and uncertain justice, mysterious slave camps labouring to harness the little understood technologies of a vanished civilization. But Makepeace? journey also leads to unexpected human contact, tenderness and the dark secrets behind this frozen world. Far North is a quest through an unforgettable Arctic landscape, from humanity? origins to its likely end.Bleak, haunting, spare -- and yet ultimately hopeful -- the novel is suffused with an ecstatic awareness of the world? fragility and beauty, and its unexpected ability to recover from our worst trespasses.