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Stunningly performed by narrators Dion Graham and January LaVoytogether they capture the propulsive motion and ominous atmosphere of this compelling story AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award Winner

In this gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Antigone 1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth reaches back to the root of legend and delivers a world of tomorrow both timeless and unexpected

Im cursed havent you heard

Outside the last city on Earth the planet is a wasteland Without the Archive where the genes of the dead are stored humanity will end

Antigones parents Oedipus and Jocasta are dead Passing into the Archive should be cause for celebration but with her militant uncle Kreon rising to claim her fathers vacant throne all Antigone feels is rage

When he welcomes her and her siblings into his mansion Antigone sees it for what it really is a gilded cage where she is a captive as well as a guest

But her uncle will soon learn that no cage is unbreakable And neither is he

Roth is a masterful conjurer summoning both classic myth and visceral dystopia to weave a breathtaking tale of love avarice and the timeless desire for revenge Ryka Aoki bestselling author of Light From Uncommon Stars

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books