Things We Didn't See Coming

ISBN-13: 9780099547044 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 208 str.

Steven Amsterdam

Opis

Opening on the eve of the millennium, when the world as we know it is still recognizable, we meet the nine-year-old narrator as he flees the city with his parents, just ahead of a Y2K breakdown. In the next chapter he is a teenager, already a delinquent, in a world transformed by battles over resources. How will he survive?

Recenzje

A memorable debut...[and a] gleefully apocalyptic novel... as ever with this kind of dystopian fiction, there is a satisfying tingle in imagining an Armageddon just round the corner. But Amsterdam also gives his book an emotional heart Adrian Turpin Financial Times

O autorze

Steven Amsterdam was born in New York and has worked as a map editor, producer's assistant, and a pastry chef. He has lived in Melbourne, Australia since 2003, where he works as a writer and palliative care nurse. His debut novel, Things We Didn't See Coming, won The Age Book of the Year in Australia and was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award.