The Last Days (Paperback)

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Editorial: Jonathan Price, 2026

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Paperback. In the biting winter of 1926, Iris Adler is an archivist fighting a war on two fronts: a terminal illness known as the "yellow waste" and a ruthless bureaucratic push to erase her town's history. With exactly ninety days left to live, Iris launches a defiant blueprint to index the parish's birth and relief records-the only legal barrier preventing a massive railway expansion from shunting her community into the margins of the Highland coast. Operating from a subterranean repository and eventually a crumbling coastal cottage, she treats her own physical decline with the same clinical precision she applies to iron-gall ink and buckram bindings, meticulously tracking the rising fluid in her lungs against the remaining names in her ledger.Iris finds an unlikely ally in Caleb Cross, a cynical glassblower who is also living on a terminal deadline. Together, they form the "Contract of No Tomorrow," a pact to ignore the past and the future in order to reach the landmark "Millionth Entry" in Iris's index. As Caleb's heart-box performs its final, irregular scramble, he turns his craft toward a luminous goal, creating glass cylinders designed to project Iris's records directly onto the landscape. Their partnership is a study in terminal intimacy-two ghosts in a Highland winter using heat, silica, and carbon to build a sanctuary of light that no municipal warrant can seize and no railway siding can replace.As the Tuesday deadline looms and the "block of salt" in Iris's spine threatens to freeze her completely, her pragmatic sister Maya transforms from a skeptical observer into the essential successor of the light. Through a series of high-stakes escapes and a final, luminous Art Show, the Adler legacy is ultimately anchored to the Point. The Last Days is a somber and defiant meditation on the persistence of memory, proving that in the face of industrial erasure, a well-indexed name is harder to move than a mile of iron track, and the voice of the dead can be rendered eternal through the optics of truth. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Título
The Last Days (Paperback)
Autor
Jonathan Price
Editorial
Jonathan Price
Año de publicación
2026
Estado
new
Encuadernación
Paperback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 13
9798235892040

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