The year is 2033. The world has been reduced to rubble. Humanity is nearly extinct. The half-destroyed cities have become uninhabitable through radiation.
A few score thousand survivors live on in the Moscow Metro - the biggest air-raid shelter ever built. It is humanity's last refuge. Stations have become mini-statelets. It is a world without a tomorrow, with no room for dreams or hopes.
VDNKh is the northernmost inhabited station on its line. It was one of the Metro's best stations and still remains secure. But now a new and terrible threat has appeared. Artyom, a young man living in VDNKh, is given the task of penetrating to the heart of the Metro, to the legendary Polis, to alert everyone to the awful danger and to get help.
About the author:
Dmitry Glukhovsky is a Russian writer, playwright and journalist.
His first novel, METRO 2033, a post-apocalyptic dystopia set in the Moscow subway after the WWIII, started as an as a free-to-read online project in 2002 to become a worldwide bestseller five years later. It is now translated into 40 languages and has already sold over 3 million copies. It also became the basis for the cult METRO video gaming franchise making Dmitry one of the global pioneers of trans media storytelling.
Glukhovsky's following books, METRO 2034 and METRO 2035, SUMERKI, FUTURE and TEXT, have also been published online prior to becoming an international success. He also wrote the film scripts for the feature film TEXT, TV series TOPI aka The Quagmires, and authored a theatre play THE WHITE FACTORY that premiered at the Marylebone theatre in London.
As a roving reporter for television news, Dmitry traveled from Morocco and Guatemala to Iceland and Japan. He was deep in Chernobyl area to film the destroyed nuclear reactor, watched Russian rockets' launch at Baykonur, reported Israel's standoff with Hezbollah under the missiles in Kiryat-Shmona and made the world's first live report from the North Pole. Apart of his native Russian, Glukhovsky fluently speaks English, French, German, Hebrew and Spanish.
A long-time critic of the Russia's authoritarian political regime, after Russia's attack on Ukraine in 2022, Dmitry Glukhovsky was declared wanted by the Russian authorities for a string of newspaper columns and interviews accusing Vladimir Putin of plotting and starting an aggressive war. In August 2023 Dmitry Glukhovsky was sentenced in absentia by a Moscow court to 8,5 years in jail for his pacifist activism. He now lives in exile in Europe.
Publisher: Gollancz; 1st edition (9 August 2011)
Language: English
Binding: Paperback Pages: 464 pages
ISBN-10 : 0575086254Dimensions : 20 x 2.9 x 13.3 cm
Condition: Exellent
Metro 2033 - Dmitry Glukhovsky - Sci-Fi Novel Paperback
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