Hummingbird Salamander

Hummingbird Salamander
Jeff VanderMeer
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 368pg
14 Apr 2022 UK
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9780008299378
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A speculative thriller about the end of all things, set in an unnamed part of the Pacific Northwest. A harrowing descent into a secret world. Another winter morning in a city in the Northwest. Where, exactly? I won' t tell you. Who am I? I won' t tell you. Exactly. But you can call me Jane. Jane Smith, if that helps. I' m here to show you how the world will end. ' Jane Smith,' a software manager in her late forties who lives in the Pacific Northwest receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit inside. In the storage unit is a taxidermied hummingbird and salamander. Along with a list of five more animals, signed ' Love, Silvina. ' The hummingbird and salamander turn out to be among the most endangered species in the world, the taxidermy commissioned by a notorious wildlife trafficking criminal. The message is from the daughter of an Argentine industrialist who has recently died, someone who became radicalized and is thought of in some quarters as an eco-terrorist. Jane does not know Silvina and has never met her, but just by taking the items from the storage unit has set events into play over which she has no control. Against a very near-future backdrop of severe global warming events and domestic and foreign instability due to predatory government actions and an intrusive security state. Why me? This was the question that tore at me, made me unable to sleep. Why me? What was so special about me. . . ? "You' re trying to destroy my life. " "No. I' m trying to save your life. "
Praise for Hummingbird Salamander:' An existential mindfuck cleverly disguised as a thriller. Though the plot never stops rocketing forward, this astonishing novel continually shifts and expands in scale, until the puzzle the narrator is tasked with solving at the outset becomes an almost Matrix-like invitation to open herself up to a new and shattering understanding of her world, and ours. Visionary, dark, beautiful, and strange, Hummingbird Salamander is that rare novel that coaxes you into imagining the unimaginable' Kristen Roupenian, author of You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories' Harrowing, gripping, and profound. It' s both a thriller and a requiem for a disappearing world. I expect this novel will haunt me for a long time' Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Glass Hotel' A profound and incendiary thriller hurtling backward from the end of the world. Jeff VanderMeer' s tale of ecological and personal obsession inhabits that strange, surreal space where the natural world and human ambition collide - a space almost no other writer has chronicled with as much reverence and imaginative lucidity. The result is a detective story unlike any I' ve read before, futuristic in bearing but deeply relevant to this present, dangerous moment' Omar El Akkad, award-winning journalist and author of American War' This gripping eco-thriller pulls readers into a world of danger, mystery, and obsession. Surprising, suspenseful, and compelling, Hummingbird Salamander is in turns insidious and explosive, heartrending and beautiful. Riveting' Meg Gardiner, author of the UNSUB series
Jeff VanderMeer is an award-winning novelist and editor. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages and has appeared in the Library of America' s American Fantastic Tales and in multiple year' s-best anthologies. He writes non-fiction for the Washington Post, the New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, and the Guardian, among others. He grew up in the Fiji Islands and now lives in Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780008299378
Published: 14 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Fourth Estate
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 270g
Pages: 368

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