Anna Kavan — Ice

Pan Books 1973 Paperback, 128pp. "In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as "the warden" search for an elusive girl in a frozen, post-nuclear, apocalyptic landscape. The country has been invaded and is being governed by a secret organization. There is destruction everywhere: great walls of ice overrun the world in this hallucinatory quest-novel. Acclaimed by Brian Aldiss on its publication in 1967 as the best science fiction book of the year, this extraordinary and innovative novel has subsequently been recognized as a major work of literature in its own right. To rescue her from a tyrant, the narrator pursues a girl through a world which is succumbing to a new ice age. She is a \'glass girl\' with silver-white hair, fragile, and a born victim—but at the same time perpetually elusive. In relation to her, it can be conjectured that tyrant and rescuer are ultimately one. Owner\'s Name inside. Owner\'s name has been crossed out with black marker; age related wear.", (ISBN: 9780330234429). Fair.