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Leave the World Behind

Author: Rumaan Alam   Series: High/low

An electrifying and unnerving novel for our times, Leave the World Behind elegantly captures our age of anxiety and shows how the most terrifying situations are never far from reality

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An electrifying and unnerving novel for our times, Leave the World Behind elegantly captures our age of anxiety and shows how the most terrifying situations are never far from reality

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'I have not been this profoundly unnerved since Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go ' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO 'An exceptional examination of race and class and what the world looks like when it's ending' ROXANE GAY 'Easily the best thing I have read all year' KILEY REID Amanda and Clay head to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a holiday: a quiet reprieve from life in New York City, quality time with their teenage son and daughter and a taste of the good life in the luxurious home they've rented for the week. But with a late-night knock on the door, the spell is broken. Ruth and G. H., an older couple who claim to own the home, have arrived there in a panic. These strangers say that a sudden power outage has swept the city, and - with nowhere else to turn - they have come to the country in search of shelter. But with the TV and internet down, and no phone service, the facts are unknowable. Should Amanda and Clay trust this couple - and vice versa? What has happened back in New York? Is the holiday home, isolated from civilisation, a truly safe place for their families? And are they safe from one another? An impossibly compelling literary thriller about the world we live in now, Rumaan Alam's novel is keenly attuned to the complexities of parenthood, race and class. Leave the World Behind explores how our closest bonds are reshaped in moments of crisis - and how the most terrifying situations are never far from reality. SOON TO BE A MAJOR GLOBAL NETFLIX ADAPTATION, STARRING DENZEL WASHINGTON AND JULIA ROBERTS

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About the Author

Rumaan Alam is the author of Rich and Pretty and That Kind of Mother . His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Elle, New York Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Wall Street Journal, The Rumpus, Buzzfeed , and elsewhere. He studied at Oberlin College, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published
20th October 2020
Pages
256
ISBN
9781526633095

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