The Trespassers (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Inscription on fep.
A taut and atmospheric work of literary fiction, The Trespassers chronicles the lives of passengers aboard a vast ocean liner making a desperate voyage to an unnamed destination, set against a near-future world gripped by social fracture and tightening borders. Meg Mundell constructs a microcosm of society at sea, where class divisions, surveillance, and the politics of belonging play out with quiet menace among a cast of richly drawn characters. The novel presents themes of displacement, identity, and the human cost of exclusion with unflinching clarity, drawing on Mundell's background as a sociologist to ground its speculative premise in uncomfortable social reality. Written with restrained, precise prose, the narrative builds a slow-burning tension that mirrors the precariousness of its characters' lives, making it as thought-provoking as it is suspenseful.
Author: Meg Mundell
Format: Paperback
Published: 2019, UQP (University of Queensland Press)
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Inscription on fep.
A taut and atmospheric work of literary fiction, The Trespassers chronicles the lives of passengers aboard a vast ocean liner making a desperate voyage to an unnamed destination, set against a near-future world gripped by social fracture and tightening borders. Meg Mundell constructs a microcosm of society at sea, where class divisions, surveillance, and the politics of belonging play out with quiet menace among a cast of richly drawn characters. The novel presents themes of displacement, identity, and the human cost of exclusion with unflinching clarity, drawing on Mundell's background as a sociologist to ground its speculative premise in uncomfortable social reality. Written with restrained, precise prose, the narrative builds a slow-burning tension that mirrors the precariousness of its characters' lives, making it as thought-provoking as it is suspenseful.