Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown, probably the only human settlement in the New World. Ever since, after the war with the hostile beings called the Spackle, the settlers were infected with the Noise virus, all the women vanished without a trace and all the surviving men began to hear one another’s thoughts. Prentisstown has become a town of constantly roaring thoughts belonging to suspicious and aggressive men.
A month before coming of age, Todd feels that something is being hidden from him. Something terrible. Faced with mortal danger, the boy is forced to flee the town with his only faithful friend — a talking dog named Manchee.
In the first book of the trilogy, Todd sets out on a dangerous and thrilling journey during which he must learn the whole truth about the New World and understand who he really is…