/lit/ - Literature

A family member died and I felt the same way you did. This book actually made me feel a little better when I was reading it. The feeling of “Lostness” the book created really spoke to me. The book gives a sense that the world had already ended and the characters were left to live in a world that was already finished and they knew it.

Basically like 5% of the populous suddenly disappeared a few years before the book starts. They have no clue what happened. The book is about how the people left behind try to move on with their lives. The whole world had been plunged into despair and nihilism. Both religion and science had failed and the government in the book had become murderous.

There was like 5 characters and each one had to find a reason to live in a world where there was none anymore.