The mystery of Area X continues. Experience Jeff VanderMeer's Absolution, now in paperback.

Now available in paperback

An instant New York Times bestseller

Finalist for the Locus Award

Featuring a new introduction by award-winning author Julia Armfield and an exclusive map of Area X.

"Some of VanderMeer's best writing . . . deserves to be mentioned alongside Poe, Chesterton and Borges."

—The New York Times Book Review

The fourth and final installment in

Jeff VanderMeer's widely celebrated Southern Reach series, Absolution converges the past, present, and future in unnerving, ecstatic, and mind-bending ways.

"Essential reading."

—The Boston Globe

"An important read for our times."

—San Francisco Chronicle

"[Puts] the ‘weird’ in ‘Weird Fiction,’ to delightful effect . . .

Surreal and Lovecraftian, packed with cascading cosmic horrors, Absolution shows a singular mind at work."
—Esquire (Best Books of the Year)

"Just as good as the first three novels

[of the Southern Reach series]."
—The Washington Post

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