Zone One

From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground Railroad

A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead.

A dark futuristic satire laced with fiendish humour

Exhilarating, heartbreaking

Profoundly thoughtful... Zone One is a dark mirror, to be sure, but there is no doubt it is our own age that is being scrutinised here

A zombie story with brains... Whitehead can spin gore into macabre poetry

As satirical and gut-wrenchingly emotional as it is horrific, Zone One is the zombie tale at its literary best

A cool, thoughtful and, for all its ludic violence, strangely tender novel

Punchy cocktail of horror, comedy and social critique

Often simultaneously arch and sombre, Whitehead's narrative flares with a sociological intelligence

Colson Whitehead is the author of four previous novels, The Intuitionist , John Henry Days , Apex Hides the Hurt and Sag Harbor , as well as The Colossus of New York , a collection of essays. He is the recipient of numerous awards and has frequently hit the American bestseller lists. He lives in New York.

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