About The Author


Marcus Wu is an innovative literary fiction author and musician, notable for weaving experimental narratives with musical compositions.

His debut novel, ASH, delves into themes of bonded love, regret, our relationship with death, and hope when all seems to be lost.

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ASH

By Marcus Wu

Overview


ASH is an experimental literary fiction novel and original literary soundtrack set before and after the collapse of humanity.

After nine billion people voluntarily turn themselves to ash, what remains is not silence, but memory. Moving between the near present and near future where the world is desolate and irrevocably altered, an unnamed woman wanders the ruins of humanity, carrying grief that refuses to settle. Humanity's technological hubris and violence form the backdrop of her interior reckoning, as love and regret surface in fragments. Unanswered. Unresolved.

Blending lyrical prose with visual and auditory experimentation, ASH invites the reader into an immersive experience where language fractures, music intervenes, and the page itself becomes unstable. Like grief, the narrative resists linearity, asking not how the world ended, but how one lives after unimaginable loss.

At once intimate and cosmic, ASH is a meditation on mourning, power, and reconciliation. It is an exploration of how love and hope endures when everything else has turned to dust.

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Description


Readers who enjoy experimental novels will be treated to an artful experience in both book form and original literary soundtrack. QR codes sprinkled throughout ASH reveal compositions that accentuate different emotional narrative layers. 

*The hardcover edition is formatted in full color and exact line formatting as the author has intended as compared to the black and white paperback edition.

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Book details

  • Genre:fiction
  • Sub-genre:Dystopian
  • Language:English
  • Pages:356
  • Hardcover ISBN:9798317834913