Jonathan Lethem, one of America's finest young writers, here offers a genre-bending, mind-expanding tale of sexual perversity on a new frontier, Girl in Landscape is a science fiction Western that evokes both the brooding tragedy of John Ford's The Searchers and the sexual precocity of Nabokov's Lolita.
Lethem's heroine is fourteen-year-old Pella Marsh, whose mother dies just as her family flees a post-apocalyptic Brooklyn for the frontier of a recently discovered planet. Hating her ineffectual father, and troubled by a powerful attraction to the virile but dangerous loner who holds sway over the little colony. Pella embarks on a course of discovery that will have tragic and irrevocable consequences - both for the humans in her community, and also for the mysterious and parsive indigenous inhabitants, The Archbuilders.
One of our most inventive, stylish and sensuous writers... Girl In Landscape may well be the freshest American novel published so far this year. Entertainment Weekly
An ingenious and unsettling dystopian romance... Wonderful stuff.
Kirkus Reviews
First British publication
Soft cover
Science Fiction-Western
BBCH

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