How high we go in the dark av Sequoia Nagamatso

 

For fans of Cloud Atlas and Station Eleven, a spellbinding and profoundly prescient debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters over hundreds of years as humanity struggles to rebuild itself in the aftermath of a climate plague?a daring and deeply heartfelt work of mind-bending imagination from a singular new voice.

Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of an ancient virus.

Once unleashed, the Arctic Plague will reshape life on Earth for generations to come, quickly traversing the globe, forcing humanity to devise a myriad of moving and inventive ways to embrace possibility in the face of tragedy. In a theme park designed for terminally ill children, a cynical employee falls in love with a mother desperate to hold on to her infected son. A heartbroken scientist searching for a cure finds a second chance at fatherhood when one of his test subjects?a pig?develops the capacity for human speech. A widowed painter and her teenaged granddaughter embark on a cosmic quest to locate a new home planet.

From funerary skyscrapers to hotels for the dead to interstellar starships, Sequoia Nagamatsu takes readers on a wildly original and compassionate journey, spanning continents, centuries, and even celestial bodies to tell a story about the resilency of the human spirit, our infinity capacity to dream, and the connective threads to ties us all togheter in the universe.

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Just denna novelsamling valde jag att lyssna på för den var en av Syd Bookworoms favoritböcker för 2022.

Jag kan bara säga att jag gillade denna bok, det var en intressant resa genom tiden, universum med mera för att se ett sammanhang av mänsklighetens försök till att (över)leva.

Jag hade inte några stora problem att hänga med i ljudboken, kan hända att någon novell då jag var för trött att jag missade lite i sammanhanget men i överlag så hade jag inte några problem med att koncentrera mig på den då jag lyssnade.

Denna bok ingår i Kaosutmaningen #37 - en bok om hälsa (eller brist på) - denna bok handlar ju om en pandemi så...brist på hälsa för det mesta.