**SHORTLISTED FOR THE TS ELIOT PRIZE 2020**

From the winner of the Costa Poetry Award

A lone martian returns to Earth. He leaves behind him a hardened survivalist culture, its muddled myths and songs, its continued abuse of the environment that sustains itDuring this journey back to the now-broken and long-abandoned mother planet, the martian begins to consider his own uncertain origins, and his own future.

Cut off from his people, the martian''s story is that of the individual: his duty at odds with his desire; the race of which he''s still a part playing always on his mind, as well as the race that once wasThis is the story of what life becomes when stripped of all that makes it worth living - of what humans become when they lose their humanity.

The Martian''s Regress is a brilliant, provocative, often darkly comic work that explores what a fragile environment eventually makes of those who persist in tampering with it.

Format Häftad Omfång 88 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Vintage Publishing Utgivningsdatum 2020-03-05 ISBN 9781787332140