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The New Wilderness : a Novel by Diane Cook; Recorded Books, Inc is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 THE ENVIRONMENTAL NOVEL OF OUR TIMES --Lemn Sissay, Booker Prize Judge The New Wilderness is a virtuosic debut, brutal and beautiful in equal measure. --Emily St. John Mandel , New York Times bestselling author of Station Eleven Margaret Atwood meets Miranda July in this wildly imaginative debut novel of a mother's battle to save her daughter in a world ravaged by climate change; A prescient and suspenseful book from the author of the acclaimed story collection, MAN V. NATURE. Bea's five-year-old daughter, Agnes, is slowly wasting away, consumed by the smog and pollution of the overdeveloped metropolis that most of the population now calls home. If they stay in the city, Agnes will die. There is only one alternative: the Wilderness State, the last swath of untouched, protected land, where people have always been forbidden. Until now. Bea, Agnes, and eighteen others volunteer to live in the Wilderness State, guinea pigs in an experiment to see if humans can exist in nature without destroying it. Living as nomadic hunter-gatherers, they slowly and painfully learn to survive in an unpredictable, dangerous land, bickering and battling for powe

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Author

Diane Cook; Recorded Books, Inc

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | Oneworld Publications

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062333155

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Contemporary Fiction