By the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2007, this is the story of a father and son walking alone through burned America, heading through the ravaged landscape to the coast.

The film directed by John Hillcoat, features an all-star cast including Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and Robert Duvall, and introduces major talent, Kodi Smit McPhee, with a soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.

A work of such terrible beauty that you will struggle to look away. – The Times

So good that it will devour you, in parts. It is incandescent. – Daily Telegraph

You will read on, absolutely convinced, thrilled, mesmerised. All the modern novel can do is done here. – Guardian