Oana Aristide

A brilliant and uniquely energising read... you will love this book!' - Jennifer Croft, translator of Olga Tokarczuk's Flights and author of The Extinction of Irena Rey Sharp, original and completely absorbing.' - Georgina Godwin, broadcaster and literary journalist Romania, 1989: a grey place of mysterious queues, ubiquitous informers and daily news flashes about a man-eating bear that is terrorising...

A road trip beneath clear blue skies and a blazing sun: a reclusive artist is forced to abandon his home and follow two young sisters across a post-pandemic Europe in search of a safe place. Is this the end of the world? Meanwhile, two computer scientists have been educating their baby in a remote location. Their baby is called Talos,...