Ice

Author: Kavan, Anna

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 3 June 2021 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Science Fiction' series.

'There is nothing else quite like Ice' Doris LessingSet in a frozen world that is gradually being devastated by ever-encroaching ice, Anna Kavan's masterwork follows one man's pursuit of a mysterious silver-haired girl to the ends of the earth; to the end of everything.

'A brutal novel of a frozen post-nuclear dystopia. Just the most magnificent book ... hugely enigmatic, a genuine novel of the unconscious and a masterpiece' Frank Tallis, Guardian'Few novelists match the intensity of her vision' J. G. Ballard'She is De Quincey's heir and Kafka's sister' Brian Aldiss