Zone one - colson whitehead

In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet.

Now the plague is receding, and Americans are rebuilding civilization under orders from the provisional government based in Buffalo.

Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground Railroad 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 Chinatowns 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.