Sign-In
Cart
The Thirty-Day Man
Paperback
Science FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Jose Anwar
Published: Jan 1 2026
Pages: 520
Weight: 1.52
Height: 1.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For three centuries, he lives only thirty days a year.
Between awakenings, the world moves on without him. Languages thin and vanish. Empires crumble. Technologies become opaque. Intelligence surpasses its human origins. The people he loves age, change, and die while he remains almost unchanged.
The Thirty-Day Man is a contemplative dystopian science fiction novel about time rationed, love distorted by policy, fragmented memories, artificial minds, and the fragile rituals that make a human life coherent.
It follows one man's attempt to remain present-to be a husband, a father, a friend-when continuity itself has been broken.
It is a story about what it costs to remain human when time no longer belongs to you.
Also in
Literary Fiction
Elizabeth Spencer: Novels & Stories (Loa #344): The Voice at the Back Door / The Light in the Piazza / Knights and Dragons / Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth
Hardcover
Philip Roth: Novels 1973-1977 (Loa #165): The Great American Novel / My Life as a Man / The Professor of Desire
Roth, Philip
Hardcover
John Updike: Novels 1978-1984 (Loa #339): The Coup / Rabbit Is Rich / The Witches of Eastwick
Updike, John
Hardcover
The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk
St Aubyn, Edward
Paperback