On the Beach

Synopsis

Nevil shute’s most powerful novel—a bestseller and a post-apocalyptic fiction classic for decades after its 1957 publication—is an unforgettable vision of a dystopian future in the aftermath of world war iii. “the most haunting evocation we have of a world. After an atomic war. ” —the new york timesafter a nuclear world war iii has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern australia await the radioactive cloud that is heading their way and bringing certain death to everyone in its path.