‘O what we ben! And what we come to . . .’
Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost after the end of civilization, Riddley Walker sets out to find out what brought humanity here. This is his story.
‘This is what literature is meant to be’ Anthony Burgess
‘A book that I could read every day forever and still be finding things’ Max Porter
Too Much Clevverness
Hoban started writing Riddley Walker in 1974 and finished it five years later. It is a masterpiece. Those who know it love it, and whole websites are devoted to it, with chapter-by-chapter...
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