Rescue distance

A hypnotic, disturbing and fascinating narrative.

The countryside transformed before our eyes without anyone noticing. Perhaps it's not drought or herbicides—but the sharp, vital thread that binds us to our children, and the poison we unleash upon them. Nothing is cliché when it finally happens. Rescue Distance accompanies this dizzying fatality, always asking the same questions: Is there such a thing as an apocalypse that isn't personal? At what precise point do we, unknowingly, take the false step that ultimately condemns us?

Samanta Schweblin has written an extraordinary, urgent, and enduring narrative that manages to keep us inevitably captivated and immersed in a disturbing fictional universe.