Description
Every day I buckle on my guns and go out to patrol this dingy city.
Out on the far northern border of a failed state, Makepeace patrols the ruins of a dying city and tries to keep its unruly inhabitants in check.
Into this cold, isolated world comes evidence that life is flourishing elsewhere - a refugee from the vast emptiness of forest, whose existence inspires Makepeace to take to the road to reconnect with human society.
What Makepeace finds is a world unravelling, stockaded villages enforcing a rough and uncertain justice, mysterious slave camps labouring to harness the little understood technologies of a vanished civilization. But Makepeace's journey also leads to unexpected human contact, tenderness, and the dark secrets behind this frozen world.
FAR NORTH leads the reader on a quest through an unforgettable arctic landscape, from humanity's origins to its likely end. Bleak, haunting, spare - and yet ultimately hopeful, the novel is suffused with an ecstatic awareness of the world's fragility and beauty, and its unexpected ability to recover from our worst trespasses.
Far North is a major new novel of retribution and forgiveness from Marcel Theroux, the prize-winning author of The Paperchase and A Blow to the Heart.
About the Author
Marcel Theroux is the author of three previous novels, A Blow to the Heart, A Stranger in the Earth, and The Paperchase, winner of the 2002 Somerset Maugham Award. He lives in London.
Awards
Short-listed for Arthur C. Clarke Award 2010.
Book Information
ISBN 9780571237784
Author Marcel Theroux
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 239g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 127mm * 20mm
