Pippa Bartolotti Ordre des livres

"The author paints a tantalising picture of life in the future and interweaves science and survival with adventure and love - this is a rare skill". V Thomas In the second part of the Symmetries trilogy, Ana has sailed to New York with her teenage son. It is 2040. Climate change has bitten hard, and the population has been decimated by crop failure and waves of pandemics. The survivors struggle to green the city but calamity hovers constantly. Now a maturing woman, Ana discovers her strengths, and finds passion in a mighty American Indian working out in the deserts of Pennsylvania. Against the odds, Ana resolves to fulfil a long-standing promise and takes her son on an arduous journey across the oceans to the newly named Levanta where the complexities of religion, culture and climate lead to a unique and hopeful society.

The first part of the trilogy - The Symmetries - starts in Tibet in 1988. The author uses first-hand testimony as the basis to tell the tale of a young monk caught up in the celebrations of the Dalai Lama's birthday. The story moves across the years to 2030, London, where a young woman, Firenza, is trying to come to terms with her seemingly pointless job in an advertising agency. Taking a rushed holiday to Tibet, she learns rather too much about the unhappy existence of many people there, and is caught up in human rights intrigue, a flooded London, and an assassination.