EAN: 9780349014234

SALVATION CITY - SIGRID NUNEZ KARTONIERT (TB)

From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend  the moving and eerily relevant novel
that imagines the aftermath of a flu pandemic as seen through the eyes of a thirteen-year-old
boy uncertain of his destiny.In an America devastated by a flu pandemic  orphaned
thirteen-year-old C ole finds safety and stability with an evangelical pastor and his wife.
Happiness becomes disquiet as he realises the cost at which this peace comes  and the extent to
which it challenges everything he knows.Salvation City is a story of love  betrayal  and
forgiveness  blending a deeply affecting portrait of one young boy's transformation with a
profound meditation on belief  heroism  and the true meaning of salvation.'A tale of an
American near-apocalypse that ... reads beautifully  at time joyously  and makes one reconsider
the ordering of our world' Gary Shteyngart'Not only timely and thought-provoking but also
generous in its understanding of human nature. When the apocalypse comes  I want Nunez in my
lifeboat' Vanity Fair'Nunez's writing is gorgeously spare  and she gets the life and the lingo
of a teenage boy just right.... A gorgeously strange novel' Boston Globe'A satisfying 
provocative and very plausible novel' Abraham Verghese  New York Times Book Review Editors'
Choice'A wise and richly humane coming-of-age novel' O Magazine

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