There he finds a strange world of fear and suspicion, where friends can be enemies and people will do anything to survive. Alone, Neil travels to London in search of other survivors of the plague. The sickness is a strange one, affecting only the adults and none of the children, and soon Neil finds himself an orphan once more. After killing thousands of people in India in just a few months, the disease begins to spread much farther, quickly sweeping across the world and eventually settling in the same village where Neil resides. Its too bad that fiction written for young adults is also written off by literary critics - if not, I couldnt imagine a work deserving higher praise than Christophers 'Empty World,' which accomplishes the near-impossible task of rejuvenating the stale genres of coming-of-age novel, apocalyptic novel, and survival novel, all wrapped up into a. Soon, a devastating illness, the Calcutta Plague, begins making the headlines. He is sent to live in a small village with his grandparents, whom he loves but doesn't really know. The book tells of a disease which originates in Asia before rapidly spreading across the world and devastating the global population. Neil's world is shattered when he and his family are involved in a horrible car accident that leaves him an orphan. If you studied English at secondary school during the 1990s, there is every possibility you will remember reading the book, Empty World, by John Christopher. When Neil survives a deadly plague and plunges into solitude, he must question everything in this gripping adventure from critically acclaimed Tripods author John Christopher.
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