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In a world driven by shadowy, corrupt corporations and the uncontrolled development of new, gene-spliced life forms, a man-made pandemic occurs, obliterating human life.

After the Fire introduces a quintet of very different women as they struggle with abandonment, loss, and new beginnings—both together and alone.

When the novel opens, Diana’s twin brother, David, a widower in his mid-sixties, is looking back on his life.

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps -- a community devoted exclusively to sickness -- as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was alre

"Patrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction examines the career, oeuvre, and literary theories of one of the most important Caribbean writers living today.