Zone One

Resumen del libro

VINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIESSpine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics. From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground RailroadA pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. The worst of the plague is now past, and Manhattan is slowly being resettled.

Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street - aka 'Zone One' and teams of civilian volunteers are clearing out the remaining infected 'stragglers'. Mark Spitz is a member of one of these taskforces and over three surreal days he undertakes the mundane mission of malfunctioning zombie removal, the rigours of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and attempting to come to terms with a fallen world. But then things start to go terribly wrong...

'A dark futuristic satire laced with fiendish humour' The Times

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Colson Whiteheadx{0026}lt;/B nació en 1969 en Nueva York. Finalista del PEN/Hemingway con su primera novela, x{0026}lt;I La intuicionistax{0026}lt;/I (2000), ha publicado media docena de novelas y el libro x{0026}lt;I El coloso de Nueva Yorkx{0026}lt;/I (2005). Fue finalista del Premio Pulitzer con x{0026}lt;I John Henry Daysx{0026}lt;/I (2011), finalista del PEN/Oakland Award con x{0026}lt;I Apex Hides the Hurtx{0026}lt;/I (2006) y del PEN/Faulkner con x{0026}lt;I Sag Harborx{0026}lt;/I (2009). x{0026}lt;I Zona Unox{0026}lt;/I (2012) fue un bestseller para x{0026}lt;I The New York Timesx{0026}lt;/I , y en 2014 publicó x{0026}lt;I The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky x{0026}amp; Deathx{0026}lt;/I . x{0026}lt;I El ferrocarril subterráneox{0026}lt;/I es su última novela hasta la fecha y ha sido merecedora del Premio Pulitzer 2017, del National Book Award 2016, de la Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence y del Indies Choice Book Award de 2017. Colson Whitehead es profesor en las universidades de Columbia y Princeton, y ha recibido las becas Guggenheim y MacArthur.x{0026}lt;/P