SINGAPORE - If the title Leave The World Behind evokes the quixotic tagline of an Airbnb listing, that is exactly what American novelist Rumaan Alam wants you to think.
Tensions rise as the home's off-the-grid idyll becomes a nightmare of isolation. Networks are down. Strange sounds rend the air. One child is beset by an inexplicable disease, the other vanishes into the woods. "At the same time, the artist is an antenna. Things might be metastasising right now in a specific way, but they've been present for a long time. Sometimes, there are sensibilities distilling something that we don't necessarily know is in the air, until we see it in the art."
"Who knows what any of this means?" says a character in this unsettling novella."Is our normal experience simply being stilled? Are we witnessing a deviation in nature itself? A kind of virtual reality?" In 2010, film-maker Ridley Scott approached Wright, a Pulitzer-winning journalist, to write a screenplay about the end of civilisation.
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