How High We Go in the Dark

A Novel

Knyga kietais viršeliais, 304 psl.

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Publikuota 2022 m. sausio 18 d., William Morrow.

ISBN:
978-0-06-307264-0
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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 …

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apžvelgė autoriaus Sequoia Nagamatsu knygą How High We Go in the Dark

Chronicles of the Apocalypse

(em português: sol2070.in/2025/04/livro-how-high-we-go-in-the-dark/ )

How High We Go in the Dark (2023, 320 pages) by Sequoia Nagamatsu. I stumbled upon this book randomly: I found the synopsis intriguing and was curious about this recent dystopian bestseller I had never heard of. What ultimately led me to read it was Alan Moore’s recommendation:

"Haunting and luminous . . . Beautiful and lucid science fiction. An astonishing debut."

The setting is a pandemic that wipes out most of humanity, caused by a virus released with the thawing of Arctic permafrost. In other words, it’s a climate fiction novel about an accelerated end-of-the-world scenario. We follow the stories of different characters over the following decades, presented like independent short stories, but all interconnected through the environmental context. There’s also a central plotline that gradually unfolds in the background. All stories focus on family or romantic relationships, most involving loss and grief.

This is …

How High We Go in the Dark

A series of bleak, gritty glimpses of what's in store for us over the next few decades.

The tone is lightened a bit here and there with injections of optimism, but I think it works against itself a little when the optimism feels unwarranted.

The way that the characters from the different stories are linked reminds me a bit of Cloud Atlas (although I only saw the movie (sorry)).

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triggers: pandemic, death, grieving, combinatorially

Captures this stretched moment of trauma and grief in a series of chained short stories along a future plague's long trajectory. While every one of these is raw and centers horrific loss, ending, and predictable yet abrupt disconnections in the family and social fabric, somehow they are also beautifully sweet, often funny, and all too recognizable without polemicizing any of our current specific polarizations.

Temos

  • Fiction
  • Dystopian

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