num_pages: 188
description: From the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1:  A Novel – a spare, powerful, intensely visionary novel about the bare-bones conditions of survivalIn a distant and unsettling future, Anna Blume is on a mission in an unnamed city of chaos and disaster. Its destitute inhabitants scavenge garbage for food and shelter, no industry exists, and an elusive government provides nothing but corruption. Anna wades through the filth to find her long-lost brother, a one-time journalist who may or may not be alive. New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster ( The New York Trilogy) shows us a disturbing Hobbesian society in this dystopian, post-apocalyptic novel.
language: English
title: In the Country of Last Things
titlecomplete: In the Country of Last Things
characters: Anna Blume, Samuel Farr, Boris Stepanovich, Victoria Woburn, Anne Blume
genres: American, Dystopia, Literary Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature, Post Apocalyptic, The United States Of America, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 13483
publisher: Penguin Books