The Pesthouse

Author: Jim Crace Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 From the Booker-shortlisted author of Quarantine. A devastated America exists in an imagined future. Its technologies are forgotten, its communities have splintered and its refugees, reversing the course of history, travel eastwards in search of safety and a new start. Among them are Franklin and Margaret, young, bereft, forced together by circumstance; but finding that love, courage and determination can endure even as a country breaks slowly apart.Read more