One of my first books in English, right after King’s The Mist.
“The main characters—an father and his young son, born after a global catastrophe—try to cross the territory of the former USA on foot to reach the distant and longed-for sea. They suffer from diseases, hunger, and fear of other people—bandits and cannibals. The boy’s mother, having lost all hope, took her own life long before the events of the book, the father is sick, coughing blood, and realizes that he will soon die. His last hopes for his son’s future are pinned on their journey to the sea; he repeats to his son ‘we are the good guys’ and ‘we carry the fire’ in contrast to the dehumanized bandits.”
A good book. Symbolically, The Mist, the predecessor, ended with a father and son driving deep into a country plagued by a global catastrophe involving alien creatures that ate people (and they encountered them there). In the movie, it ends well (almost), but in the book—it ends indeterminately.
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 