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The End We Start from - by Megan Hunter (Paperback)
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- NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JODIE COMER"Engrossing, compelling.
- Author(s): Megan Hunter
- 144 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary
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From a daring new talent, Megan Hunter, The End We Start From is a "beautifully spare, haunting meditation" (Emily St. John Mandel) on young motherhood, exile, and love in the midst of an all too likely environmental catastropheBook Synopsis
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JODIE COMER
"Engrossing, compelling." -- Naomi Alderman, author of The Power
"I was moved, terrified, uplifted - sometimes all three at once." -- Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl With a Pearl Earring
Publishing in the US to a wave of critical acclaim and nominations for two major literary prizes, Megan Hunter's internationally bestselling, extraordinarily poetic debut novel imagines new motherhood in the midst of an all-too-possible climate change catastrophe. A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival, The End We Start From is a searing original, a modern-day parable of rebirth and renewal, of maternal bonds, and the instinct to survive and thrive in the absence of all that's familiar.
As London is submerged below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child, Z. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from place to place. Their journey traces fear and wonder as the baby grows, thriving and content against all the odds.
The End We Start From is an indelible and elemental first book--a lyrical vision of the strangeness and beauty of new motherhood, and a tale of endurance in the face of ungovernable change.
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JODIE COMER
Finalist for the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize
Winner of the Editor's Choice Prize for Fiction
Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize
A #1 Indie Next Selection
"The End We Start From is a stunning tale of motherhood. Megan has crafted a striking and frighteningly real story of a family fighting for survival that will make everyone stop and think about what kind of planet we are leaving behind for our children." -- Benedict Cumberbatch
"A beautifully spare, haunting meditation on the persistence of life after catastrophe. I loved it." -- Emily St. John Mandel, author of Station Eleven
"In her spare, stylish debut novel, The End We Start From, Megan Hunter depicts new motherhood against a climate-change cataclysm in which city-swallowing floods tip England into chaos... But the real strength of this wonderfully earthy novel is in its sharpened lens on motherhood's apocalyptic-feeling joys and terrors, and how they can form an all-encompassing world."-- Vogue
"You can't escape the rise of dystopia in fiction . . . But Megan Hunter's slim, poetic leap into the chaotic near-future feels the most plausible and, possibly for that reason, the most devastating." -- NPR Best Fiction of 2017
"Poetic and succinct, Megan Hunter's The End We Start From is an etiological exercise for a climate-changed world--a post-apocalyptic novel in which current human mistakes are followed forward to dismaying ends...Though the story is marked by incredible loss, the hope beyond the devastation is worth holding on for. Hunter's is an uncommon disaster tale--lovely, intimate, and foreboding." -- Forward Reviews "The postapocalyptic literary novel is currently in vogue almost to the point of redundancy, but Hunter's slim yet sharp debut offers a level of precision and interiority rarely seen in the genre.... Told in a voice that is by turns meditative, desperate, and hopeful, this novel showcases Hunter's considerable talents and range." -- Publishers Weekly "The End We Start From is reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy's The Road, in that it shares the same narrative detachment, and the same precise poetry. It is of course told from the perspective of a mother, rather than a father, and is set in a world that is only beginning to fall into chaos-...Megan Hunter's remarkable debut novel feels like the other half of the story." -- Financial Times "A short, haunting story about the end of days, sparse, beautiful and heroic."-- Observer"Startlingly poetic...Hunter writes with delicacy and precision; her imagery is pearlescent in places. It's a sliver of a novel, but it shimmers."-- Guardian "Ambitious, original and disturbing."-- Daily Mail
"The End We Start From by Megan Hunter is a short, concentrated book - a shot of distilled story, like the pulp of a tale boiled to a thick spiced paste...With passages from mythology interspersed with its imagined future, the book is engrossing, compelling and finally hopeful."-- Naomi Alderman's Book of the Year (Summer books 2017 in the Financial Times)
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