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Nick Harkaway. HOME books; Home. books. blog. Search. REVIEWS INTERVIEWS The Gone-away World [] The Gone-Away World took a year to complete for the first time. I wasn’t doing any other work, although I was getting married. It is two hundred thousand words long (ish), which is a lot. On the other hand, most people guess that it’s.  · The Gone-Away World. by Nick Harkaway. pp, Heinemann, £ The great thing about a post-apocalyptic world is that pretty much anything can happen in www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins. The Gone–Away World by Nick Harkaway is such a work. In it we follow an unnamed protagonist through childhood and college into a proxy “Un-War” in the Elective Theatre, formerly known as the prosperous and peaceful country of Addeh Katir. There he is reunited with his childhood best friend Gonzo. When the enemy launches a chemical attack /5().

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The Gone-Away World took a year to complete for the first time. I wasn’t doing any other work, although I was getting married. It is two hundred thousand words long (ish), which is a lot. The Gone-Away World. by Nick Harkaway. pp, Heinemann, £ The great thing about a post-apocalyptic world is that pretty much anything can happen in it. The Gone-Away World Quotes Showing of “I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.”. ― Nick Harkaway, The Gone-Away World. tags: mimes. 40 likes. Like. “People don't want children to know what they need to know. They want their kids to know what they ought to need to know.