{"product_id":"9781250824042","title":"Annihilation : A Novel (10th Anniversary Edition) (Southern Reach)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSPECIAL TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e The Southern Reach Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e begins with \u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e, the Nebula Award-winning novel that “reads as if Verne or Wellsian adventurers exploring a mysterious island had warped through into a Kafkaesque nightmare world” (Kim Stanley Robinson).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArea X has been cut off from the rest of the world for years. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. Expeditions into Area X have ended in disaster or death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAnnihilation\u003c\/i\u003e, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach Trilogy, we join the latest expedition. The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and the narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThey arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—they discover lifeforms that surpass understanding. But it’s the secrets they carried across the border with them that change everything.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48226962079979,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":32.96,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781250824042-1.jpg?v=1781670567","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781250824042","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}