The Emergency
$28.75
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
11 November 2025
Summary
A gripping fable of imperial collapse that illuminates the crises of our times.
An empire has collapsed from boredom and loss of faith in itself. In the Emergency that follows, youth rebellions of urban Burghers and rural Yeomen embrace radical new ideas of humanity.
Doctor Hugo Rustin, chief surgeon at the Imperial College Hospital, is increasingly estranged from his city and his family—from his wife, Annabelle, who finds fulfillment in their changed community; and especially…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761777318 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761777319 |
| Author: | George Packer |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan Australia |
| Imprint: | Picador Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 11 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 510g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 156mm x 234mm |
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George Packer
George Packer is an award-winning author and a staff writer at The Atlantic. He has written many books, including The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (winner of the National Book Award) and, most recently, Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal. He is also the author of two previous novels and a play, and the editor of a two-volume edition of the essays of George Orwell.
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