He was a survivor: a wanderer who traded tales for food & shelter in the dark & savage aftermath of a devastating war. But when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker his life changes for ever. As he journeys from one isolated community to the next the old worn uniform becomes far more than a protection against the unrelenting cold: its a reminder of how things were before the world collapsed
- & a symbol for how things might be again. His story is one of a lie becoming the most important kind of truth. Translated into 25 languages around the world The Postman is a powerful & affecting novel about survival of the human spirit from the award-winning author of EXISTENCE & The Uplift novels.