Alexandria
A Novel
by Paul Kingsnorth
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Pub Date Oct 20 2020 | Archive Date Nov 06 2020
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Description
A visionary and timely novel about a world out of balance by the prizewinning author of The Wake
When Swans return, Alexandria will fall.
One thousand years from now, a small religious community lives in what were once the fens of eastern England. They are perhaps the world’s last human survivors. Now they find themselves stalked by a force that draws ever closer, and that seems to have brought them to the brink of extinction. A force that offers them a promise and a threat: a place called Alexandria.
Set in a time on the far side of an apocalypse, and perhaps on the verge of another, Paul Kingsnorth’s radical new novel is a work of matchless, mythic imagination. It is driven by elemental themes: community versus the self, the mind versus the body, machine over man—and the tension between an unstable present and an unknown, unknowable future.
Alexandria is the rousing conclusion to an extraordinary fiction project that began with Kingsnorth’s prizewinning novel The Wake, one that maps two thousand years of troubled human history.
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Advance Praise
Praise for Beast:
“Beast cements Kingsnorth’s reputation as a furiously gifted writer.”—The Washington Post
“A taut, thrilling and mystifying narrative. Taken in tandem with The Wake, it forms a powerful meditation on violence, society and the nature of exile.”—Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
“Kingsnorth is becoming an existential David Mitchell: a versatile weaver of the seemingly unconnected into a tapestry realer than reality.”—Vulture
Praise for The Wake:
“A book unlike any other, brilliant in its rarity and brutal, ugly truth. . . . A raw and powerful masterpiece.”—NPR.org
“Like Tolkien’s and Martin’s books, The Wake presents the reader with an immersive experience. . . . What sharply distinguishes it is its disorienting use of high literary experiment and its insistence on uncertainty.” —Bookforum
“Kingsnorth works a masterful balance between Buccmaster’s largely unintentional hilarity and his grim purpose. . . . A whole vanished world flickers to life.”—Los Angeles Times
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| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781644450352 |
| PRICE | $16.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 408 |
