World War Z
An Oral History of the Zombie War
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Publisher Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Prepare to be entranced by this addictively readable oral history of the great war between humans and zombies.”—Entertainment Weekly
We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z is the only record of the pandemic.
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
“Will spook you for real.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Possesses more creativity and zip than entire crates of other new fiction titles. Think Mad Max meets The Hot Zone. . . . It’s Apocalypse Now, pandemic-style. Creepy but fascinating.”—USA Today
“Will grab you as tightly as a dead man’s fist. A.”—Entertainment Weekly, EW Pick
“Probably the most topical and literate scare since Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds radio broadcast . . . This is action-packed social-political satire with a global view.”—Dallas Morning News
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
What would the world be like 20 years into a zombie apocalypse? World War Z is narrated by an investigator for the United Nations Postwar Commission. His name is Max Brooks (just like the author himself) and he travels the world interviewing survivors of the global plague that wiped out huge swaths of humanity starting two decades earlier. The novel’s inventive structure alternates the survivors’ intensely personal stories with a more matter-of-fact account of the apocalypse and the response—or lack thereof—of various nations. (In case you’re wondering: The book is way different from the Brad Pitt action movie adapted from it.) Brooks’ driving prose propels his stoic narrator through a terrifyingly plausible time line, but his curiosity and humanity give World War Z a heartfelt quality that makes it far more than just a scary zombie story.
