translated by John Brownjohn

How does it feel to be the last man alive?

Thrilling and philosophical, compulsive and exhilarating—Paul Auster meets David Lynch in a future cult classic.

There's nothing moving outside. No cars. No buses. No people. No birds—nothing. No one.

An ordinary man wakes up on an ordinary day to find the radio and TV filled with white noise. There's no newspaper, the internet is down and no one's answering the phone. Jonas is the last living being on the planet.

What happened? Why? And why is he still here?

Praise for Night Work:

'Writers tell stories, but writers of Glavinic's rank create worlds in which we lose ourselves.'

— Die Welt

'Glavinic's masterpiece...A wonderful, big novel about the self and others, about fear and courage...about the uncertain border between waking and dreaming.'

— Daniel Kehlmann

‘By cutting to the core of the genre, Glavinic has turned the terrain of traditional disaster fiction into fertile ground for a terse and uncanny existential thriller.’

— Age

‘Night Work is a well-constructed and disturbing novel, and Glavinic brilliantly evokes the loneliness of Jonas’s situation.’

— Canberra Times