Ice
  • Published: 3 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241441565
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $22.99

Ice

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Paperback
3 Aug 2021
Paperback
12 Feb 2018
Hardback
7 Feb 2023
EBook
2 Nov 2017
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A dreamlike, frozen dystopia from one of the twentieth century's most unique writers

No one knows why the ice has come, and no one can stop it. Every day it creeps further across the earth, covering the land in snow and freezing everything in its path. Through this bleached, devastated world, one man pursues the silver-haired girl he loves, as she keeps running - away from her husband; away from the sinister 'warden' who seeks to control her; away from him...

Mysterious, unnerving, and beautifully lyrical, Anna Kavan's Ice is a work of science fiction without parallel.
  • Published: 3 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9780241441565
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 176
  • RRP: $22.99
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Praise for Ice

Astonishes with poetic brilliance

Sunday Telegraph

There is nothing else like it... This ice is not psychological or metaphysical ice; here the loneliness of childhood has been magicked into a physical reality as hallucinatory as the Ancient Mariner's.

Doris Lessing

One of the most mysterious of modern writers, Anna Kavan created a uniquely fascinating fictional world. Few contemporary novelists could match the intensity of her vision

J.G. Ballard

One of the most terrifying postulations about the end of the world.. One can only admire the strength and courage of this visionary

The Times

Brutal, addictive and extremely entertaining... strange, unsettling and harsh

Guardian

Ice is superbly unsettling... this novel is perfect winter reading.

James Marriott, The Times

Just the most magnificent book...hugely enigmatic, a genuine novel of the unconscious and a masterpiece. I feel very passionate about it, as you can probably tell.

Frank Tallis, Guardian