num_pages: 190
description: In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman -- middle-aged and middle-class -- is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author has called "an attempt at autobiography," is that woman's journal -- a glimpse of a future only slightly more horrendous than our present, and of the forces that alone can save us from total destruction.
language: English
title: The Memoirs of a Survivor
titlecomplete: The Memoirs of a Survivor
genres: Literature, Dystopia, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction, Classics, Post Apocalyptic, Nobel Prize
ratings_count: 3257
publisher: Picador