Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker (MOBI)

Riddley Walker is a 1980 post-apocalyptic novel by Russell Hoban, set in a far-future England after a nuclear holocaust, where humanity lives in a primitive, Iron Age-like society amidst the ruins of the old world. The story follows 12-year-old Riddley Walker as he becomes the community's storyteller, navigating a world where technology is lost and myth, based on garbled versions of history and the St. Eustace legend, is used to explain the past. A key feature is its unique, experimental dialect, a degraded form of English that immerses the reader in the setting, exploring themes of lost knowledge, power, and humanity's tendency to repeat its mistakes. 

'Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome.' Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, RIDDLEY WALKER is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road. It is desolate, dangerous and harrowing, and a modern masterpiece.

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