Alexandria av Paul Kingsnorth

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<p><b>¿Like Robert Macfarlane re-written by Cormac McCarthy.¿ <i>Telegraph</i><br><br>¿Beckett doing <i>Beowulf</i>.¿ <i>London Review of Books</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br>Set on the far side of the climate apocalypse, <i>Alexandria</i> completes the Buckmaster Trilogy, which began with Kingsnorth