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Two Tribes
As a historian in the bleak, climate-ravaged twenty-third century, it's Zoe's job to record and archive the past, not to recreate it. But when she comes across the diaries of Harry and Michelle, who lived two hundred years ago, she becomes fascinated by the minutiae of their lives and decides to write a novel about them, filling in the gaps with her own imaginings. Harry and Michelle meet just after the Brexit referendum when Harry's car breaks down outside a small town in Norfolk. Despite their different backgrounds, and Michelle having voted Leave while Harry voted Remain, they are drawn to each other and begin a relationship. From her long perspective, the way Zoe sees their world is somewhat different from the way we see it now. Two Tribes becomes a reflection on the way our ideas are shaped by class and social circumstances, and how they change without us even noticing. It explores what divides us and what brings us together. And it asks where we may be headed next.
Book Details
- Publisher: Corvus
- Publish Date: Jul 1st, 2021
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.72in - 5.04in - 1.10in - 0.66lb
- EAN: 9781786499332
- Categories: • Literary• Science Fiction - Action & Adventure
About the Author
Chris Beckett is a former university lecturer and social worker. He is the winner of the Edge Hill Short Fiction Award, 2009, for The Turing Test, the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award, 2013, for Dark Eden and was shortlisted for the British Science Fiction Association Novel of the Year Award for Mother of Eden in 2015 and for Daughter of Eden in 2016.
Praise for this book
"A disturbing descent into a surreal world, written with a deft hand." - Adrian Tchaikovsky, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2016, on Beneath the World, a Sea
"Beckett is superb at undercutting reader assumptions with a casual line of dialogue or acute psychological observation: the book reads like Conrad's Heart of Darkness reimagined by JG Ballard." --Guardian on Beneath the World, a Sea
"Poetic . . . Beckett renders the terror of the darkness beyond the forests with a riveting deftness that evokes all primordial fears of the unknown. . . . There's plenty here to intrigue and entrance."--New York Times Book Review on Mother of Eden
"A superb entertainment, a happy combination of speculative and literary fiction. And it is not to be missed." --Booklist starred review of Dark Eden
"The detailed world-building and strong characters beautifully illustrate the usefulness of myths as a tool for keeping power in the hands of a few." --School LIbrary Journal on Mother of Eden
"Provocative and precarious." --Foreword Reviews