The slow, kind of peaceful end of a big trilogy, giving the main antagonist much more space than in any other work I´ve readĪ few hundred pages, especially the very long backstory of the antagonist and the short story in the far future of the universe, may be Cronin playing around with alternative autobiographical fiction. A Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Rice University, he divides his time between Houston, Texas, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Other honors for his writing include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Whiting Writer’s Award. Justin Cronin is also the author of Mary and O’Neil (which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize), and The Summer Guest. For the last time, Amy-the Girl from Nowhere, who lived a thousand years-will join her friends and face down the demons that threaten the last of humanity. Stephen King called The Passage “enthralling… read this book and the ordinary world disappears.” Now, PEN/Hemingway Award-winner Justin Cronin bring us the conclusion to his epic trilogy with The City of Mirrors. It sold in over 40 countries and became a bestseller in many of them. It was featured on more than a dozen “Best of the Year” lists, including Time’s “Top 10 Fiction of 2010,” NPR’s “Year’s Most Transporting Books,” and Esquire’s “Best & Brightest of 2010.” It was a #1 Indie Next Selection. It spent 3 months on The New York Times bestseller list.

The unforgettable tale that critics and readers compared to the novels of Cormac McCarthy, Michael Crichton, Stephen King, and Margaret Atwood became a runaway bestseller and enchanted readers around the globe. In 2010, Justin Cronin’s The Passage was a phenomenon. One last time light and dark will clash, and at last Amy and her friends will know their fate.

His fury will be quenched only when he destroys Amy humanity s only hope, the Girl from Nowhere who grew up to rise against him. The anguish that shattered his human life haunts him, and the hatred spawned by his transformation burns bright. The survivors are stepping outside their walls, determined to build society anew and daring to dream of a hopeful future.īut far from them, in a dead metropolis, he waits: Zero. The Twelve have been destroyed and the hundred-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. Now all is quiet on the horizon but does silence promise the nightmare s end or the second coming of unspeakable darkness? At last, this bestselling epic races to its breathtaking finale. In 'The Passage 'and' The Twelve, 'Justin Cronin brilliantly imagined the fall of civilization and humanity s desperate fight to survive.

The city of mirrors by justin cronin