The Emergency
A Novel
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Billie Fulford-Brown
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George Packer
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"Narrator Billie Fulford-Brown delivers this thought-provoking story of empire collapse as imagined by renowned novelist George Packer in a cool yet impassioned tone."—AudioFile
George Packer’s gripping fable of imperial collapse illuminates the crises of our times.
George Packer’s bestselling nonfiction work exploring American life has won many prizes, including the National Book Award. With The Emergency, he turns to fiction, bringing us a visionary novel that goes to the nerve center of what it means to live in a time of fracture and upheaval.
An empire has collapsed from boredom and loss of faith in itself. In the Emergency that follows, youth rebellions of urban Burghers and rural Yeomen embrace radical new ideas of humanity. Doctor Hugo Rustin, chief surgeon at the Imperial College Hospital, is increasingly estranged from his city and his family—from his wife, Annabelle, who finds fulfillment in their changed community; and especially from his teenage daughter, Selva, who has turned against her father’s values. When an incident at the hospital leads to Rustin’s disgrace, he seeks redemption in a quixotic and dangerous journey into the countryside, with Selva as his companion, just as the conflict between Burghers and Yeomen is reaching a crisis.
The Emergency is an un-putdownable audiobook of ideas. It asks what we owe each other across divided generations and classes—what common human bonds remain when a society falls apart. In creating a vividly imagined world, Packer takes us deep into the heart of our troubled moment.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Commentaires
Advance Praise
“A propulsive Orwellian novel . . . Packer writes with spare elegance and mounting urgency, and while the depictions of rising class and intergenerational conflicts have clear parallels to real-world matters, the novel never loses its taut dramatic edge. It’s a knockout.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“In this pivot to fiction, Packer is still preoccupied with the end of empire; it’s just that here he imagines a richly detailed adventure for a father and daughter through the jagged remnants of a society that’s already crumbled.”
—Bloomberg
“George Packer’s robustly imagined political parable is at once a gripping adventure and a vivid portrait of a family riven by a changing world. The Emergency is moving, urgent—and indelible.”
—Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Homeland Elegies
Praise for George Packer
“Packer’s strength as a storyteller lies in his ability to marshal a diverse range of voices from across the class divide, in a nation deeply divided by social status.”
—J.P. O’Malley, NPR
“Packer’s gifts are Steinbeckian in the best sense of that term.”
—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
“Packer’s is an American voice of exceptional clarity and humanity . . . When our descendants survey the ruins of this modern imperium and sift its cultural detritus, American voices like this will be the tiny treasures that endure.”
— David Goldblatt, The Independent
“Packer’s courage [is] the closest we have to Orwell’s.”
—Charles Kaiser, The Guardian