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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Man's Last Song

Man's Last Song

Vuorio, Satu
Tam, James

Paperback

Science FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 9888228161
ISBN13: 9789888228164
Publisher: Proverse Hong Kong
Published: Nov 8 2015
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The human race faces imminent extinction. The year is 2090. The global population has shrunk to less than half a million; median age about sixty. After forty years of near-universal sterility, humanity is vanishing while the rest of the planet makes a healthy comeback. A few survivors in Hong Kong face the challenge of adjusting to life as post-modern savages, rediscovering instincts that have long been suppressed by civilisation. To these post-modern cavemen and cavewomen dwelling in the concrete remains of an empty metropolis, life has become a lonely journey of self-discovery in which they reassess also mankind. Their relationships with nature, each other, and themselves have fundamentally changed. The dilemma, pain and pleasure of love, friendship, compassion, ageing, and loneliness have been heightened by pragmatic dictates. The unknowable - God, Dao, death, even reality - has assumed new and shifting dimensions in man's dying world. How did Homo sapiens reach this dire situation? Looking back with hindsight borrowed from the future, readers may join characters in this book in finding today's world absurd, even suicidal. Others may hang on tenaciously to one thing that has not changed: hope.

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