Riddley Walker

Riddley Walker, first published in 1980, is a brilliant, unique, and completely realized work of fiction. One reads it again and again, discovering new wonders. Set in a remote future in a post-nuclear holocaust England (Inland), Hoban has imagined a humanity regressed to an iron-age, semi-literate state -- and invented a language to represent it. Riddley is at once the Huck Finn and the Stephen Dedalus of his culture, change agent, rebel, and artist. "Walker is my name and I am the same, Riddley Walker. Walking my riddles where ever they've took me and walking them now on this paper the same.