EAN: 9780374614720

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

George Packer's gripping fable of imperial collapse illuminates the crises of our times. George Packer's bestselling nonfiction work exploring American life has won many prizes including the National Book Award. With The Emergency he turns to fiction bringing us a visionary novel that goes to the nerve center of what it means to live in a time of fracture and upheaval. An empire has collapsed from boredom and loss of faith in itself. In the Emergency that follows youth rebellions of urban Burghers and rural Yeomen embrace radical new ideas of humanity. Doctor Hugo Rustin chief surgeon at the Imperial College Hospital is increasingly estranged from his city and his family-from his wife Annabelle who finds fulfillment in their changed community and especially from his teenage daughter Selva who has turned against her father's values. When an incident at the hospital leads to Rustin's disgrace he seeks redemption in a quixotic and dangerous journey into the countryside with Selva as his companion just as the conflict between Burghers and Yeomen is reaching a crisis. The Emergency is a novel of ideas and a taut page-turner. It asks what we owe each other across divided generations and classes-what common human bonds remain when a society falls apart. In creating a vividly imagined world Packer takes us deep into the heart of our troubled moment.

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