Hailed by the <em>New York Times</em> 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, ' <em>Fahrenheit 451, </em> and <em>Dog Soldiers, </em> screened <em>Star Wars</em> and <em>Apocalypse Now</em> several times, dropped a lot of acid and listened to hours of Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones," <em>Fiskadoro</em> is a stunning novel of an all-too-possible tomorrow. Deeply moving and provacative, <em>Fiskadoro</em> brilliantly presents the sweeping and heartbreaking tale of the survivors of a devastating nuclear war and their attempts to breaking tale of the survivors of a devastating nuclear war and their attempts to salvage remnants of the old world and rebuild their culture.