Manuel de Pedrolo’s widely acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel,
which includes a foreword by Kim Stanley Robinson, tells the story
of two children who survive the brutal destruction of Earth by
alien explorers. The protagonists, Alba and Dídac, retreat to the
forest, then journey to the rubble of Barcelona to rescue and
preserve the remnants of human civilization in the city’s bombed
libraries and cultural institutions. In the absence of the rule of
law and social norms, the children create a utopian world of two
that honors knowledge and interracial love, to become a new Adam
and Eve and try to bring about the world’s second origin. A
bestseller and required reading for secondary school students in
Catalonia, Typescript of the Second Origin is indispensable to
understand how a region of Spain whose language, culture, and
institutions were targeted and punished by Francisco Franco. At the
same time, Pedrolo’s tale of survival reaches beyond national and
cultural borders to offer contemporary international readers a
timely warning about the threat of global ecological destruction.
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