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finished reading La Route by Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy: La Route (French language, 2009, Éditions Points)

The Road is a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. The book details …

Absolutely loved this stark, emotional struggle by a man and his son travelling by foot across a post-apocalyptic America. The man’s frustrations and hopelessness can be felt and the boy’s little mistakes and childlike imagination hurt to read. Also McCarthy’s strange poetry on nature and the world around the travellers really stick in your head (I had to look up SO many words).