# The Postman

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- Book: [The Postman](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-brin/the-postman) ([The Postman.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-brin/the-postman.md))
- Authors: [David Brin](https://www.bookquiver.com/david-brin)
- Publisher: orbit
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0551-432-3
- Published: 2011-12-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

He was a survivor - a wanderer who traded tales for food and shelter in the dark and savage aftermath of a devastating war. But when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker, his life changes forever. As he journeys from one isolated community to the next, the old, worn uniform becomes far more than a protection against the unrelenting cold: it becomes a reminder of how things were before the world collapsed - and a symbol for how things might be again. And his story becomes one of a lie that turns into the most important kind of truth. Against a background of global failure, THE POSTMAN is a powerful and affecting novel of the survival of the human spirit from the author of the award-winning Uplift novels.