Hailed by the

New York Times

as "wildly ambitious" and "the sort of book that a young Herman Melville might have written had he lived today and studied such disparate works as the Bible, 'The Wasteland,'

Fahrenheit 451

, and

Dog Soldiers

, screened

Star Wars

and

Apocalypse Now

several times, dropped a lot of acid and listened to hours of Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones,"

Fiskadoro

is a stunning novel of an all-too-possible tomorrow. Deeply moving and provacative,

Fiskadoro

brilliantly presents the sweeping and heartbreaking tale of the survivors of a devastating nuclear war and their attempts to salvage remnants of the old world and rebuild their culture.