Genre
Post-apocalyptic fiction
The Road
A devastating survival novel about love at the end of things.
Details
Subgenre
Father and son survival novel
Original publication
26 September 2006
Original publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pages
287
Format
Paperback, hardcover and ebook editions
Language
English
Setting
A devastated post-apocalyptic landscape
ISBN
9780307387899
Original title
The Road
About the book
A father and son move through a ruined world, carrying love and a fragile moral code through hunger and fear.
A stark fit for readers asking for survival, parental love, bleak landscapes, apocalypse and spare contemporary prose.
The book is brutally minimal, which makes the father-son bond feel even more exposed.
It answers requests around post-apocalyptic fiction, moral endurance, family and bleak but beautiful prose.
Recognition
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 2007
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