About the book: 2011 / Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown, probably the only human settlement in the New World. Since the settlers were infected with the Noise virus after the war with the hostile Spek creatures, all the women disappeared without a trace, and all the surviving men began to hear each other’s thoughts. Prentisstown has become a city of constantly rattling thoughts of suspicious and aggressive men. A month before his coming of age, Todd feels that something is being hidden from him. Something terrible. Having been exposed to mortal danger, the boy is forced to flee the city with his only true friend - the talking dog Munchie. In the first book of the trilogy, Todd will go on a dangerous and exciting journey, during which the boy will have to learn the whole truth about the New World and understand who he really is..