A virulent new strain of flu that "exploded like a neutron bomb over the surface of the earth", wiping out 99% of humanity characters holed up in tower blocks while the world collapses around them "unspeakable years" in which the unlucky survivors walk blasted roads in search of vestiges of civilisation crazed prophets leading murderous cults and "ferals" leaping out from behind bushes. I n her much-tipped fourth novel, longlisted last week for a US National Book award, Canadian author Emily St John Mandel makes something subtle and unusual out of elements that have become garishly overfamiliar.
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