Description

With life on earth fading to a whisper, Carlos and Aitana are faced with a decision, monumental and world-altering, about what they are prepared to sacrifice to cleave to life. While in the margins of their story there slowly forms a portrait of what life looks like after earth – of our shared fate among the stars.

Publisher Review

Gorgeous, gripping, and totally original, The White Desert is a book of connection and loss against a backdrop of quiet catastrophe. I was captivated as its full force crept up on me, and by the end I was deeply moved — Elvia Wilk A novel of fractured voices and fragile connections and shockingly persistent life. Existential dread atomises itself over everything – like a parlour game you didn’t know you were playing. I loved it — Ben Pester Limpid, striking and astute, The White Desert hums with urgency and ideas — Chloe Aridjis Imagines a very near future in which – without nostalgia, but in a beautiful melancholic tone – we haven’t forgotten who we were and who we are… A formally daring, fun, endearing, witty, stimulating novel — Juan Pablo Villalobos A novel of fractured voices and fragile connections and shockingly persistent life. Existential dread atomises itself over everything – like a parlour game you didn’t know you were playing. I loved it — Ben Pester Limpid, striking and astute, The White Desert hums with urgency and ideas — Chloe Aridjis