Anansi BoysNeil Gaiman
How High We Go in the Dark
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • ROXANE GAY'S AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK • FINALIST FOR THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE
""Moving and thought-provoking . . . offering psychological insights in lyrical prose while seriously exploring speculative conceits."" — New York Times Book Review
""Haunting and luminous . . . Beautiful and lucid science fiction. An astonishing debut."" — Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen and V for Vendetta
Recommended by New York Times Book Review • Los Angeles Times • NPR • Washington Post • Wall Street Journal • Entertainment Weekly • Esquire • Good Housekeeping • NBC News • Buzzfeed • Goodreads • The Millions • The Philadelphia Inquirer • Minneapolis Star-Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • and many more!
For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague—a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice.
In 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika Crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus.
Once unleashed, the Arctic plague will reshape life on Earth for generations to come, quickly traversing the globe, forcing humanity to devise a myriad of moving and inventive ways to embrace possibility in the face of tragedy. In a theme park designed for terminally ill children, a cynical employee falls in love with a mother desperate to hold on to her infected son. A heartbroken scientist searching for a cure finds a second chance at fatherhood when one of his test subjects—a pig—develops the capacity for human speech. A widowed painter and her teenaged granddaughter embark on a cosmic quest to locate a new home planet.
From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead to interstellar starships, Sequoia Nagamatsu takes readers on a wildly original and compassionate journey, spanning continents, centuries, and even celestial bodies to tell a story about the resilience of the human spirit, our infinite capacity to dream, and the connective threads that tie us all together in the universe.
""Wondrous, and not just in the feats of imagination, which are so numerous it makes me dizzy to recall them, but also in the humanity and tenderness with which Sequoia Nagamatsu helps us navigate this landscape. . . . This is a truly amazing book, one to keep close as we imagine the uncertain future."" — Kevin Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here
© 2022 HarperAudio (Luisterboek): 9780063072671
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 18 januari 2022
How High We Go in the Dark
- 399 beoordelingen
4
- Lengte
- 9uur 20min
- Taal
- Engels
- Format
- Categorie
Fantasy & SciFi
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • ROXANE GAY'S AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK • FINALIST FOR THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE
""Moving and thought-provoking . . . offering psychological insights in lyrical prose while seriously exploring speculative conceits."" — New York Times Book Review
""Haunting and luminous . . . Beautiful and lucid science fiction. An astonishing debut."" — Alan Moore, creator of Watchmen and V for Vendetta
Recommended by New York Times Book Review • Los Angeles Times • NPR • Washington Post • Wall Street Journal • Entertainment Weekly • Esquire • Good Housekeeping • NBC News • Buzzfeed • Goodreads • The Millions • The Philadelphia Inquirer • Minneapolis Star-Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • The Guardian • and many more!
For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague—a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice.
In 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika Crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus.
Once unleashed, the Arctic plague will reshape life on Earth for generations to come, quickly traversing the globe, forcing humanity to devise a myriad of moving and inventive ways to embrace possibility in the face of tragedy. In a theme park designed for terminally ill children, a cynical employee falls in love with a mother desperate to hold on to her infected son. A heartbroken scientist searching for a cure finds a second chance at fatherhood when one of his test subjects—a pig—develops the capacity for human speech. A widowed painter and her teenaged granddaughter embark on a cosmic quest to locate a new home planet.
From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead to interstellar starships, Sequoia Nagamatsu takes readers on a wildly original and compassionate journey, spanning continents, centuries, and even celestial bodies to tell a story about the resilience of the human spirit, our infinite capacity to dream, and the connective threads that tie us all together in the universe.
""Wondrous, and not just in the feats of imagination, which are so numerous it makes me dizzy to recall them, but also in the humanity and tenderness with which Sequoia Nagamatsu helps us navigate this landscape. . . . This is a truly amazing book, one to keep close as we imagine the uncertain future."" — Kevin Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here
© 2022 HarperAudio (Luisterboek): 9780063072671
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 18 januari 2022
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Henk
11 feb 2022
Zet aan tot denkenPageturnerMindblowingOnvoorspelbaarInteresting concept, execution could have been better
Kyra
15 mrt 2024
Zet aan tot denkenInspirerendDoordachtPageturnerMindblowingOnvoorspelbaarAn extraordinary sci-fi story including numerous uncanny ideas that could have been books of its own. Not what I expected at all, but not a bad surprise at all. The various chapters written from a different point of view yet all linked present a different story all thought provoking. Definitely a worthy read.
F
5 jan 2023
Zet aan tot denkenVerdrietigInspirerendDoordachtPageturnerMindblowingOnvoorspelbaarThis book is so beautiful. I can’t put into words what it is. Wonderful story. Existential scifi.
Nathalie
22 sep 2023
Zet aan tot denkenDoordachtOnvoorspelbaarThe book is sometimes a bit confusing, either because there are so many names I can't remember while listening, or whether because the stories are weird. The second kind of confusing was really good. It took me a while to get into the book, but after a while I didn't want the stories the end while also being very curious to find out what story would come next
Els
17 mei 2022
Zet aan tot denkenOnvoorspelbaar3,5 because not all the stories/pov were convincing or too detached to really connect. But all in all impressive and have ordered a hard copy for a re-read.
Esther
31 jul 2023
Zet aan tot denkenDoordachtVerwarrendEven though this is a brilliant book, it’s not for me. This is so complicated and far-fetched. Sure, we were just in a pandemic and it seems highly relatable at times, but there were also some unrealistic points, which made me so confused and afraid. It could very well be there is some horrific virus captured in the Arctic that we cannot control and it really terrifies me, with global warming and all, we might succumb to this unknown disease while all the rest of the world just falls apart. It’s a good thing to imagine such situations, but it also fucks with my head and I’m just not comfortable with that. I guess that’s exactly why this book was written: messing up the only world we know how to live on is not something to be comfortable with in the first place. So I guess the author hit a home run with this one.
Gosia
1 okt 2022
There's no overarching plot holding this book together, and the funerary themes just got tedious halfway through. But it is well written, and the characters are interesting and believable, and the final chapter provides some sort of semi-satisfying ending. So, overall, the book is alright.
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