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Knopf
Knopf
Publication Date
September 26, 2006
September 26, 2006
Format
Hardcover / Unabridged
Hardcover / Unabridged
Pages
256
256
ISBN-13
978-0-30-726543-2
978-0-30-726543-2
In a bleak, ash-covered world where civilization has collapsed, a father and his young son travel south along a desolate road, searching for warmth, safety, and any sign of life. The cause of the devastation is unknown, but its effects are absolute: cities lie in ruins, food is scarce, and danger lurks in the form of other survivors driven to desperate extremes.
As they move through the empty landscape, the father struggles to protect his son—not only from physical threats, but from losing hope in a world that offers little reason for it. Their journey is marked by constant hunger, fear, and the fragile routines that keep them going, even as the father’s strength begins to fade.
Spare and haunting, The Road is a story of survival, love, and the enduring bond between parent and child. It explores what it means to remain human in the face of overwhelming desolation, where the smallest acts of care become acts of resistance against a world that has lost everything.
As they move through the empty landscape, the father struggles to protect his son—not only from physical threats, but from losing hope in a world that offers little reason for it. Their journey is marked by constant hunger, fear, and the fragile routines that keep them going, even as the father’s strength begins to fade.
Spare and haunting, The Road is a story of survival, love, and the enduring bond between parent and child. It explores what it means to remain human in the face of overwhelming desolation, where the smallest acts of care become acts of resistance against a world that has lost everything.
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Edition Info
Publisher / Imprint
Knopf
Knopf
Publication Date
September 26, 2006
September 26, 2006
Format
Hardcover / Unabridged
Hardcover / Unabridged
Pages
256
256
ISBN-13
978-0-30-726543-2
978-0-30-726543-2