Afterland
“The anticipation and dread Beukes crafts is remarkable. Also remarkable is Beukes’s ability to blend genres, seamlessly incorporating horror, fantasy and traditional crime in ways that highlight the best parts of each.”
Entertainment Weekly
An Entertainment Weekly Pick of Summer Books
A Gizmodo Pick of the Month
A Tor.com Reviewers' Choice for July
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
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Three years after a virus wiped out 99% of the men on earth, a mother and son are on the run . . .
All Cole has left in the world is her boy, Miles.
With men now a prized commodity, keeping him safe means breaking hastily written new rules - and leaving her own sister for dead.
All Miles has left in the world is his mother.
But is one person enough to save him from the many who would kill to get their hands on a living boy?
Together, Cole and Miles embark on a journey across a changed, hostile country, towards a freedom they may never reach. And when Cole's sister tracks them down, they'll need to decide who to trust - and what loyalty really means in this unimaginable new world.
The compulsive and long-awaited new thriller from the author of Richard and Judy bestseller The Shining Girls and the prize-winning Zoo City
'A major, major talent' George R. R. Martin
'Beukes deals with slightly surreal things in very real ways. I'm all over it' Gillian Flynn
© Lauren Beukes 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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