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Long after a forgotten catastrophe, when even the gangs that plundered the surviving villages are gone, only one village seems to be left. Its youngest inhabitant is Mo, a foundling who came from nowhere, with no past and no sense of time, living only in the present. Old Ut, the village's guardian, counts its souls and reads it the Scriptures from her home in a crumbling outbuilding of a former monastery. One day a mute little boy appears at Mo's gate. Ut asks Mo to find out whether the world still exists anywhere else or is entirely empty, so Mo leaves the child in Ut's care and sets out on a ritual journey: seven days in one direction and seven days back. The language of the novel is woven from the imagery of the Psalms.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

384 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative (assigned by AI)

First published

2018 by Obsidian

Author's age

60 when first published

ISBN

9789547694491 (original)