Alexandria
Alexandria by Paul Kingsnorth is a novel published by Faber & Faber, Limited on May 5, 2022. This edition spans 416 pages and is presented in English. The narrative unfolds one thousand years into the future, where a small group of survivors inhabits a remote island in a post-civilized world. As the last remnants of humanity, they face the challenges of their environment while encountering a mysterious figure in red, who represents an alternative way of life known as Alexandria.
Readers will find a rich exploration of themes such as community versus individuality and the tension between the mind and body. The story delves into the implications of a world reshaped by climate change, presenting a mythical and polyphonic drama that raises questions about faith in the present versus the future. Alexandria completes the Buckmaster Trilogy, following Kingsnorth’s earlier work, The Wake, and invites readers to reflect on the elemental struggles of existence in a transformed landscape.
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‘Like Robert Macfarlane re-written by Cormac McCarthy.’ Telegraph
‘Beckett doing Beowulf.’ London Review of Books
One thousand years from now, the sole inhabitants of a small island – a group no larger than an extended family – are living in a post-civilised world. They are perhaps the Earth’s only human survivors.
But lurking outside their isolated community is a figure in red, an emissary from another way of life: a virtual place of refuge and security, of escape from the dangers of a newly wild world. The visitor calls it Alexandria.
A work of radical and matchless imagination, Paul Kingsnorth’s new novel is a mythical, polyphonic drama driven by elemental themes: of community versus the self, the mind versus the body, machine over man; whether to put your faith in the present or the future.
Set on the far side of the climate apocalypse, Alexandria completes the Buckmaster Trilogy, which began with Kingsnorth’s prize-winning The Wake.
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