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The Postman

by David Brin

389 pages · 2012

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He was a survivor, a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war. But when he borrows the jacket of a long dead postal worker, his life changes for ever. As he journeys from one isolated community to the next, the old, worn uniform becomes far more than a protection against the unrelenting cold: it becomes a reminder of how things were before the world collapsed and a symbol for how things might be again. And his story becomes one of a lie that turns into the most important kind of truth.

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