A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND MEDIA PHENOMENON IN THE US 'In her arresting debut novel, Edan Lepucki conjures a lush, intricate, deeply disturbing vision of the future, then masterfully exploits its dramatic possibilities' Jennifer Egan, bestselling author of A Visit from the Goon Squad
In a barbarous and fallen world, the monks of the Order of Leibowitz inherit the sacred relics and spend their lives copying, illuminating and interpreting the holy fragments. They vow to preserve ancient knowledge, but will man learn from his mistakes or will history repeat itself?