
The boy's mother, pregnant with him at the time of the disaster, committed suicide some time before. The book was adapted into a film of the same name in 2009, directed by John Hillcoat.Ī father and his young son journey on foot across the post-apocalyptic ash-covered United States some years after an extinction event. The novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006. The book details the grueling journey of a father and his young son over a period of several months across a landscape blasted by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed industrial civilization and almost all life.


The Road is a 2006 post-apocalyptic novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy.
