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Anthem

By: Noah Hawley
Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
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Summary

From the visionary best-selling author of Before the Fall and The Good Father, an epic literary thriller set where America is right now...and the world will be tomorrow.

America spins into chaos as the last remnants of political consensus break apart. Against a background of environmental disaster and opioid addiction, debate descends into violence and militias roam the streets - while teenagers across the world seem driven to self-destruction, communicating by memes only they can understand.

Yet the markets still tick up and the super-rich, like Ty Oliver, fly above the flames in private jets.

After the death of his daughter, Ty dispatches his son Simon to an Anxiety Abatement Centre. There he encounters another boy called the Prophet. And the Prophet wants him to join a quest.

Before long, Simon is on the road with a crew of new comrades on a rescue mission as urgent as it is enigmatic. Suddenly heroes of their own story, they are crossing the country in search of a young woman held in a billionaire's retreat - and, just possibly, the only hope of escape from the apocalypse bequeathed to them by their parents' generation.

Noah Hawley's epic literary thriller, full of unforgettably vivid characters, finds unquenchable lights in the darkest corners. Uncannily topical and yet as timeless as a Grimm's fairy tale, this is a novel of excoriating power, raw emotion and narrative verve, confirming Hawley as one of the most essential writers of our time.

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Critic reviews

"Noah Hawley taps into our existential anxiety - and transforms it into a hefty page-turner that's equal parts horrific, catastrophic and, at times, strangely entertaining." (New York Times)

"Terrifyingly good.... Hawley is such an experienced storyteller...this book is nothing if not art imitating life." (Irish Sunday Independent)

"Hawley makes this sing by combining the social commentary of a Margaret Atwood novel with the horrors of a Stephen King book." (Publishers Weekly)

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