NATIONAL BESTSELLER

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year
The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Kansas City Star, Los Angeles Times, New York, People, Rocky Mountain News, Time, The Village Voice, The Washington Post

The searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece.

A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the...

"The fulfilled renown of Moby-Dick and of As I Lay Dying is augmented by Blood Meridian, since Cormac McCarthy is the worthy disciple both of Melville and Faulkner," writes esteemed literary scholar Harold Bloom in his Introduction to the Modern Library edition. "I venture that no other living American novelist, not even Pynchon, has given us a book as strong and memorable."

Cormac McCarthy's masterwork, Blood Meridian, chronicles the brutal world of the Texas-Mexico borderlands in the mid-nineteenth century. Its wounded hero, the teenage Kid, must confront the extraordinary violence of...

A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life-or-death decision must be made. In that small apartment, 'Black' and 'White', as the two men are known, begin a conversation that leads each back through his own history.

'The Gardener's Son' is the tale of two families: the wealthy Greggs, who one the local cotton mill, and the McEvoys, a family of mill workers beset by misfortune. Two years ago, Robert McEvoy was involved in an accident that led to the amputation of his leg. Consumed by bitterness and anger, he quit his job at the mill and fled. Now, news of his mother's terminal illness brings Robert home. What he finds on his return stokes the slow burning rage he carries with him, a fury that ultimately consumes both the McEvoys and the Greggs.

Po existenciálních westernech Všichni krásní koně (č. 1995) a Hranice (č. 1997) vydal sedmdesátiletý, cenami ověnčený americký spisovatel Cormac McCarthy v r. 2005 své další románové dílo - Tahle země není pro starý, žánrově označované za morální thriller.
Jeden muž najde šťastnou náhodou na poušti v kabele pohádkovou hotovost, výsledek války drogových gangů. Od té chvíle ho i s jeho manželkou, která se odjede skrýt ke své matce, začne pronásledovat ten, kterému peníze patřily, a všem třem je na stopě celkem stoicky uvažující...