Ice: 50th Anniversary Edition - Anna Kavan
Nigel Patterson, Anna Kavan, Kate Zambreno
Category: Sci-Fi
Tags: Sci-Fi, Adults
The last of Anna Kavans books to be published in her lifetime, Ice is a surrealistic dream-novel set in an unrecognizable world padded by ice and snow, run by a secret government, invaded by aggressors, and threatened with nuclear destruction., A nameless narrator in frenzied pursuit of a frail ice-maiden he once loved turns out to be not so much a character in his own right as part of the girl and of the warden - a bullying high-ranking official whose sullen, outlandish functionaries police the country. Dream sequences slip in and out of the narrative, and the story ends with a high-speed ride in a car - one of the huge, sleek automobiles that appear everywhere in Kavans writing: tearing into jungles, mowing down people and problems, slicing through entire battle scenes.
