From the Caves

Name: From the Caves
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781636280028
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By Thea Prieto

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In From the Caves by Thea Prieto, a small group of survivors navigates a post-apocalyptic world where nature has reclaimed its dominance. As they seek solace in their past memories within the confines of a cave, they grapple with surviving in a stark, ever-changing environment. Their journey explores themes of memory, survival, and hope amidst desolation.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate stories that delve into human resilience in post-apocalyptic settings. It offers a poetic and introspective narrative that explores survival, memory, and identity in a compelling way. This book may appeal to you if you're drawn to richly detailed storytelling that balances literary fiction with thought-provoking themes.

From the Caves

To escape the choking heat of deep summer, Sky and his family survive on stories of the dead in an underground darkness at the end of the world.

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To escape the choking heat of deep summer, Sky and his family survive on stories of the dead in an underground darkness at the end of the world.

Environmental catastrophe has driven four people inside the dark throat of a cave: Sky, a child coming of age; Tie, pregnant and grieving; Mark, a young man poised to assume primacy; and Teller, an elder, holder of stories. As the devastating heat of summer grows, so does the poison in Teller's injured leg and the danger of Tie's imminent labour, with food and water dwindling while the future becomes increasingly dependent on the words Sky gleans from the dead. These stories are pieced together from recycled knowledge, fragmented histories, and half-buried creation myths.

From the Caves presents the past, present, and future in tandem, reshaping ancient and modern ideas of death and motherhood, grief and hope, endings and beginnings.

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From the Caves by Thea Prieto is highly acclaimed for its evocative prose and compelling narrative set in a post-apocalyptic world. Reviewers praise it as a powerful and haunting novella that explores themes of environmental catastrophe, storytelling, and human resilience. The book is noted for its beautiful language, deep character development, and an underlying tone of hopeful persistence amidst devastation. It won the Red Hen Press Novella Award and is lauded for its cinematic quality and profound reflection on the human condition.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781636280028

Publisher: Red Hen Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 September 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Red Hen Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 144

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About the Author

Thea Prieto is a recipient of the Laurels Award Fellowship, as well as a finalist for the international Edwin L. Stockton, Jr. Award and Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers. She writes and edits for Poets & Writers, Propeller Magazine, and The Gravity of the Thing, and her work has also appeared at New Orleans Review, Longreads, Entropy, The Masters Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she teaches creative writing at Portland State University and Portland Community College. From the Caves is her first book.