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Book:Name: Thomas Wharton - The Book of Rain (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 2.02 MB
Description:Title: The Book of Rain
Author: Thomas Wharton
Language: English
Year: 2023
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Random House of Canada
ISBN: 9788325203276
Total pages: 76 str.
Download from RapidGatorA groundbreaking, deeply affecting work of environmental literary suspense for fans of Cloud Atlas, The Overstory, and Station Eleven.
The northern mining town of River Meadows is one of three hotspots in the world producing ghost ore, a new source of energy worth twenty-eight times its weight in gold. It's also linked with slippages of time and space that gradually render the area uninhabitable. After the town is evacuated, the whole region is cordoned off, the new no-go zone wryly nicknamed "the Park."
Three intertwined stories flow from the disaster of River Meadows. Alex Hewitt and his sister, Amery, were among the first to be shipped out of the contaminated town. Now an accomplished game designer, Alex has moved on, but his sister has not, making increasingly dangerous break-ins to save animals trapped in the toxic wasteland. When at last she fails to return from a trip inside the fence, Alex flies to River Meadows to search for her,...
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