Zóna jedna

A novel by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction author (2017 and 2020) Colson Whitehead (born November 6, 1969 in New York City). Of his ten books - eight novels and two volumes of essays - only one, The Underground Railroad, has been published in Czech, and in Slovak, in addition, The Boys from Nickel.
The 2011 dystopian thriller Zone One stands out from Whitehead's work in terms of genre. The theme is a virus that has turned infected individuals from 99 percent carnivorous skels into 1 percent inert bums. All civilization has collapsed, but the "humans" survive and set about rebuilding it. The story, with many digressions into the past, takes place over three days during which Mark Spitz and his "cleaners" take back parts of Manhattan. But somehow things go wrong...
In addition to representing modern civilization in its wretchedness, the novel is also the author's homage to horror master Stephen King, science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, and director George A. Romero. The book alternates between several genres and styles, from philosophical essay to brutal shooters, from survival manual to cynically humorous narrative. Some critics have likened the way the book is written to "dating an intellectual with a porn star" because of this very fact.
"There were plenty of things in the world that deserved to stay dead, and yet they continued to walk on it."

Czech edition