
A conscript at the burial clubs for the aged performs minor acts of resistanc to the authorities until he is forced to flee to the edge of civilization, where he takes up residence in a mysteriously furnished, but otherwise abandoned, garbage truck.

In this haunting narration from a postmillennial urban zero zone, the central character gains hope, strength, and renewed energy from conducting a nearly invisible campaign of microsabotage against a surrounding but amorphous bureaucratic terror. A skeptical new conscript to...