# The Chrysalids

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- Book: [The Chrysalids](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-wyndham/the-chrysalids) ([The Chrysalids.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-wyndham/the-chrysalids.md))
- Authors: [John Wyndham](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-wyndham)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-292-6
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2008-11-18
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

THE COLD WAR SCI-FI CLASSIC: Following a global nuclear war, a telepathic young boy searches for freedom in a fundamentalist society. “One of the most thoughtful post-apocalypse novels ever written.”...