"Mecanoscrito del segundo origen" en inglés
"Mecanoscrito del segundo origen" en inglés y con prólogo de Kim Stanley Robinson
The first English translation of a Catalan science fiction masterpiece
Manuel
de Pedrolo’s widely acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel, which includes a
foreword by Kim Stanley Robinson, tells the story of two children who
survive the brutal destruction of Earth by alien explorers. The
protagonists, Alba and Dídac, retreat to the forest, then journey to the
rubble of Barcelona to rescue and preserve the remnants of human
civilization in the city’s bombed libraries and cultural institutions.
In the absence of the rule of law and social norms, the children create a
utopian world of two that honors knowledge and interracial love, to
become a new Adam and Eve and try to bring about the world’s second
origin. A bestseller and required reading for secondary school students
in Catalonia, Typescript of the Second Origin is indispensable
to understand how a region of Spain whose language, culture, and
institutions were targeted and punished by Francisco Franco. At the same
time, Pedrolo’s tale of survival reaches beyond national and cultural
borders to offer contemporary international readers a timely warning
about the threat of global ecological destruction.
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