Radiant Terminus

Synopsis

The Most Patently Sci-fi Work Of Antoine Volodine's To Be Translated Into English, Radiant Terminus Takes Place In A Tarkovskian Landscape After The Fall Of The Second Soviet Union. Most Of Humanity Has Been Destroyed Thanks To A Number Of Nuclear Meltdowns, But A Few Communes Remain, Including One Run By Solovyei, A Psychotic Father With The Ability To Invade People's Dreams--including Those Of His Daughters--and Torment Them For Thousands Of Years. When A Group Of Damaged Individuals Seek Safety From This Nuclear Winter In Solovyei's Commune, A Plot Develops To Overthrow Him, End His Reign Of Mental Abuse, And Restore Humanity. Fantastical, Unsettling, And Occasionally Funny, Radiant Terminus Is A Key Entry In Volodine's Epic Literary Project That--with Its Broad Landscape, Ambitious Vision, And Interlocking Characters And Ideas--calls To Mind The Best Of David Mitchell-- Antoine Volodine ; Translated From The French By Jeffrey Zuckerman ; Foreword By Brian Evenson. Translated From The French.