Ice

A strange and compelling classic of dystopian and climate fiction one that with foreboding and deep compassion maps the psyche and the terrain of dislocation Jeff VanderMeer One might become convinced that Kavan had seen the future New Yorker Ice will soon cover the entire globe As the glacial tide creeps forward society breaks down Hurtling through the frozen chaos is a nameless narrator seeking the white haired girl he once loved desperate to rescue her or perhaps to annihilate her Through nightmarish ever shifting scenes she flees him and his powerful enemy the Warden But none of them can outrun the ice Anna Kavan s masterwork is an apocalyptic vision of environmental devastation and possessive violence rendered in unforgettable propulsive hallucinatory prose Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series timeless storytelling by icons of literature hand picked from around the globe With an introduction by Christopher Priest author of The Prestige and The Inverted World Anna Kavan 1901 1968 was born Helen Woods the only child of wealthy British expatriates and grew up travelling through Europe and America She began publishing under her married name Helen Ferguson having left her husband in Burma and returned with her son to live in En