Dyschronia

The town was founded on empty promises and later kept alive by a poisonous mining industry. One morning its people find that the sea has drained away. Sam saw it coming: since childhood she has caught glimpses of what is to come, but she cannot separate them from what is happening now. Perhaps she is an oracle, perhaps her brain misreads time, perhaps she simply lies. The town first refuses to believe her, then turns against her, and at last demands that she predict the future, though she can neither alter nor explain what she senses. Jumping between earlier and later years, the novel ties her migraine-like premonitions to the community's fate as residents shrug off illness, inertia and questionable rulers while their surroundings are wrecked.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

368 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, Nature (assigned by AI)

Set in

Australia

First published

2018

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9781760552206 (Pan Macmillan Australia, Australia)