Absence (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Andrew Dana Hudson | knygos.lt

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The simplest explanation is usually the most likely--but in the world of Absence, nothing is simple. A moving, richly detailed sci-fi detective procedural for fans of The Leftovers and The City & the City.

The human population is vanishing, one by one, into thin air: a global cataclysm known as Spontaneous Human Absence. In a world where prospects for survival are increasingly grim--where, at any moment, you or a loved one might "pop" without warning--uncertainty and hopelessness reign.

To manage the crisis, the US government has established the Bureau of Depopulation Affairs--an ad hoc federal agency for which Agent Harvey Ellis works the night shift. Harvey's job: to investigate claims of Absence and, if validated, give the remainders a small benefit check for their loss. It's thankless bureaucratic work, but Harvey is content in his routine.

That is, until a woman long thought Absent reappears in her hometown of Dawnville, Kansas, offering an enticing answer to the world's most profound mystery: She knows where the Absent go, because she herself has been there. Is her story true, or is she the latest in a line of false prophets, offering empty hope to a desperate world? Together with his quick-witted, no-BS partner, Shonda Erins, Harvey travels to Dawnville--where they assume the role of detective and are quickly drawn into the allure of a new perspective.