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29 juli 2022
Mycket speciell och tankeväckande bok. Rekommenderas
4
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 (Ljudbok): 9780063072671
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 18 januari 2022
4
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 (Ljudbok): 9780063072671
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 18 januari 2022
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I.
30 jan. 2023
Wow… Just wow! I’m still processing and will definitely reread again very soon. This is magnificent. Absolutely fantastic and completely wild and frightening and breathtaking and scary and heartwarming. Just read it!
Nona
27 jan. 2022
5 🌟 to the audiobook 4.5 🌟 to the bookThis is one of the most magical Scifi stories I've ever read, if Scifi can be magical.I'm in awe, each short story was unique, each played on my heart strings in a different way, I'm legitimately in aweMy favorites were "the used to be party" and "through the garden of memory"
Anne
8 apr. 2023
Fedt spin på en pandemi som ændrer vores verden
N
5 feb. 2023
An exceptional novel and brilliantly narrated.
Henk
11 feb. 2022
Interesting concept, execution could have been better
Mee
28 maj 2022
Fantastisk …
Sarah
5 jan. 2023
As an intricate interweaving of connected human stories, this book succeeded. As a sci-if novel, it largely failed. The general world building and predicted effect of the plague on future society were unlikely and ill conceived. Mortuary crypto currencies? Amusement parks for euthanasia? These were plot devices undermined by their lack of plausibility, thus taking away from the themes they were created to explore.
Dheeraj
3 feb. 2022
The stories within the big story if humankind through pandemics and ages and ages of creation and destruction were woven together nicely. It was a little more gripping in the first half but overall the book was good.
Kadir
1 apr. 2023
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Rikard
29 juli 2022
Mycket speciell och tankeväckande bok. Rekommenderas
I.
30 jan. 2023
Wow… Just wow! I’m still processing and will definitely reread again very soon. This is magnificent. Absolutely fantastic and completely wild and frightening and breathtaking and scary and heartwarming. Just read it!
Nona
27 jan. 2022
5 🌟 to the audiobook 4.5 🌟 to the bookThis is one of the most magical Scifi stories I've ever read, if Scifi can be magical.I'm in awe, each short story was unique, each played on my heart strings in a different way, I'm legitimately in aweMy favorites were "the used to be party" and "through the garden of memory"
Anne
8 apr. 2023
Fedt spin på en pandemi som ændrer vores verden
N
5 feb. 2023
An exceptional novel and brilliantly narrated.
Henk
11 feb. 2022
Interesting concept, execution could have been better
Mee
28 maj 2022
Fantastisk …
Sarah
5 jan. 2023
As an intricate interweaving of connected human stories, this book succeeded. As a sci-if novel, it largely failed. The general world building and predicted effect of the plague on future society were unlikely and ill conceived. Mortuary crypto currencies? Amusement parks for euthanasia? These were plot devices undermined by their lack of plausibility, thus taking away from the themes they were created to explore.
Dheeraj
3 feb. 2022
The stories within the big story if humankind through pandemics and ages and ages of creation and destruction were woven together nicely. It was a little more gripping in the first half but overall the book was good.
Kadir
1 apr. 2023
MerhabaNasıl sınBenden söylemek istiyorum
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