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Anna Kavan: Ice (Paperback, 1997, Peter Owen)

Published July 1st 2006 by Peter Owen Publishers (first published 1967)

Ice by Anna Kavan

This book is about the main character, a woman, constantly referred to as "the girl" and a third person, "the warden". We don't learn their names. It is not a heartwarming story, but very captivating, about life in a world at war, altered by climate change entering an ice age. There are some hints in the book that it could be some kind of nuclear winter.

The story is unsettling, sometimes hallucinogenic, weird. And a total must-read !