![]() ![]() “Roth is a masterful conjurer, summoning both classic myth and visceral dystopia to weave a breathtaking tale of love, avarice, and the timeless desire for revenge. “Roth is a masterful conjurer, summoning both classic myth and visceral dystopia to weave a breathtaking tale of love, avarice, and the timeless desire for revenge.” - Ryka Aoki, bestselling author of Light From Uncommon Stars When he welcomes her and her siblings into his mansion, Antigone sees it for what it really is: a gilded cage, where she is a captive as well as a guest.īut her uncle will soon learn that no cage is unbreakable. Passing into the Archive should be cause for celebration, but with her militant uncle Kreon rising to claim her father's vacant throne, all Antigone feels is rage. Without the Archive, where the genes of the dead are stored, humanity will end.Īntigone’s parents-Oedipus and Jocasta-are dead. But the womb that gave my life its ebbs and flows made my body sacred to the state, and therefore particularly subject to its might. Outside the last city on Earth, the planet is a wasteland. Arch-Conspirator by Veronica Roth, the bestselling author of the Divergent series, is a dystopian sci-fi retelling of Antigone, an Athenian tragedy written by Sophocles in 441 BC. ![]() In this gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Antigone, #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth reaches back to the root of legend and delivers a world of tomorrow both timeless and unexpected. ![]()
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