Counter-Clock World

Paperback. Pub Date :2008-09-01 Pages: 236 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK Pre-empting novels such as the Booker Prize-winning 'Time's Arrow' by as much as twenty years. Counter-Clock world is a story of racial tensions told against the background of the year 1998 in which time flows in reverse as people are born old only to grow younger and younger.Time runs backwards in the Counter-Clock World.Old people emerge from their graves. grow to middle age. youth. adolescence and childhood to be finally unborn in their mothers wombs.The most powerful - and most feared - organisation in the world is the Library. in charge of expunging the written records of events. which have no longer happened.When a powerful black leader is reborn. the Librarys one concern is to eliminate him before the renewal of racial violence tears the country apart.But in this counter-clock yea...