A literary dystopia unlike any other: lyrical, restrained, and quietly devastating. 

In a future beyond catastrophe, a woman walks alone through the remnants of a planet once teeming with life. Arnaq, who grew up under the northern lights during a time of environmental upheaval, now traverses the Earth’s most hauntingly beautiful and desolate ecosystems, tundras, oceans, forests, in search of another living soul.  

But this is not a tale of disaster. There are no scenes of apocalypse here. Instead, this is a quiet, deeply moving meditation on solitude, memory, and resilience. Through the eyes of her solitary protagonist, we glimpse a world after us; fragile, transformed, and achingly empty. In the absence of humanity, nature remains, altered but enduring, and so does the hope, however faint, that connection might still be possible. 

This novel is a love letter to the planet we leave behind, and to the persistence of those who carry memory forward. For the readers of authors such as Emily St. John Mandel, Marlen Haushofer, Cormac McCarthy, Maja Lunde and Alan Weisman, this is a novel that lingers long after the last page.  

„A luminous and chilling dystopian vision.“
Sigridur Hagalin Bjornsdottir, writer