by Marcel Theroux · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780312429720
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«Far North: A Novel» is Marcel Theroux's dystopian science fiction novel, published by Picador in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Makepeace, sheriff and perhaps the last inhabitant of a ruined Siberian city, lives on the margins of a failed state. A refugee from the forest encourages him to seek human contact. On his journey he finds fortified villages and labour camps exploiting the technology of an extinct civilisation, until an unexpected encounter.
Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. The work was originally published in 2009; this edition dates from 2010.
For readers of speculative fiction and survival stories seeking an adventure with a literary backdrop.
Marcel Raymond Theroux is an English-American novelist and broadcaster. He has written novels such as The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: A Paper Chase (2001), A Blow to the Heart (2006), Far North (2009), and Strange Bodies (2013). He won the Somerset Maugham Award for The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Strange Bodies. He has also hosted documentaries on various topics and worked for TV news stations in New York City and Boston.
