EAN: 9781982123109

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

A New York Times Notable Book “This book is simply put a modern classic. If you read it you'll never forget it. Prophetic terrifying uplifting.” —Stephen King From the bestselling author of Ohio a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching collapse and a nascent but strengthening solidarity. In the first decades of the 21st century the world is convulsing its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In California in 2013 Tony Pietrus a scientist studying deposits of undersea methane receives a death threat. His fate will become bound to a stunning cast of characters—a broken drug addict a star advertising strategist a neurodivergent mathematician a cunning eco-terrorist an actor turned religious zealot and a brazen young activist named Kate Morris who in the mountains of Wyoming begins a project that will alter the course of the decades to come. From the Gulf Coast to Los Angeles the Midwest to Washington DC their intertwined odysseys unfold against a stark backdrop of accelerating chaos as they summon courage galvanize a nation fall to their own fear and find wild hope in the face of staggering odds. As their stories hurtle toward a spectacular climax each faces a reckoning: what will they sacrifice to salvage humanity’s last chance at a future? A singular achievement The Deluge is a once-in-a-generation novel that meets the moment as few works of art ever have.

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