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Zone One

Colson Whitehead

2011259 pagesabout 4–6 hours
2011
first published
  • 2011Harvill Secker · 259 pages · ENGISBN 9781846555985
  • 2011Doubleday · 259 pages · ENGISBN 9780385528078
  • 2012Thorndike Press · ENGISBN 9781410446213
  • 2012VintageISBN 9780099570141
  • 2014Hanser, Carl GmbH + Co.ISBN 9783446244863
  • 2019FISCHER TaschenbuchISBN 9783596034505
  • 2012Anchor · 336 pagesISBN 9780307455178
  • 2017Ediciones Destino · 336 pagesISBN 9788423352845

Mark Spitz and his squad of three "sweepers" move through Zone One of lower Manhattan, a walled-off enclave scheduled for resettlement in the aftermath of a zombie plague. The great masses of the undead have been violently dispatched by a Marine detachment. It falls to Spitz and his fellows to take care of the handful that remain, as well as a second-tier of the infected known as "stragglers": zombies who have bypassed the cannibalistic urges of their more lethal fellows in favor of a hollow-eyed, eerily nostalgic repetition of some mundane act.

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ThemesSurvival
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