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Zone One
A General Fiction Novel by Colson Whitehead
Subgenres:
- Post-Apocalyptic,
- Zombie Fiction,
- Literary Horror
This book is for you if you're into...
- Post-pandemic Manhattan crawling with zombies and dark humor
- Mundane routines twisted by horror and existential dread
- Literary takes on survival after the apocalypse
From Little Stack
After a pandemic strikes, humanity is divided between the living and the undead. But as the plague finally slows, the living want to reclaim their lives. Top of the list of cities to rebuild is Manhattan. The military has successfully cleared Zone One, an island south of Canal Street. Mark Spitz is a civilian team assigned to help clear out pockets where some plague-infested stragglers linger. It should be a mundane assignment. But nothing is mundane in this new world. And for Mark, everything is about to go wrong.
A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead.
After the worst of the plague is over, armed forces stationed in Chinatown’s Fort Wonton have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street—aka Zone One. Mark Spitz is a member of one of the three-person civilian sweeper units tasked with clearing lower Manhattan of the remaining feral zombies.
Zone One unfolds over three surreal days in which Spitz is occupied with the mundane mission of straggler removal, the rigors of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder (PASD), and the impossible task of coming to terms with a fallen world. And then things start to go terribly wrong…. At once a chilling horror story and a literary novel by a contemporary master, Zone One is a dazzling portrait of modern civilization in all its wretched, shambling glory.
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