Corpus Paradisum
The Crow Flu: a pandemic that wiped out the world. The Green Burn: the American government's untested response to it. Quixotic and aging Susursal pursues information on how, and why, civilization ended. Pragmatic and young Mael keeps him grounded and sane. Both gravitate around a retired warlord, Marlin, who has the answers. Post-apocalyptic speculative fiction: less The Road, more Joyce's interpretation of The Last Man.
This post-apocalyptic literary fiction work focuses on an unreliable dreamer and a steadfast realist. Both need each other, and both will fight to keep the other alive. Susursal's always been, well, lucky. He knows people in ways he shouldn't. He reacts before things happen. And Mael has been in his shadow her whole life. Now Susursal's aging and for his final trip outside safety, he wants to tackle the antagonist to his story: Marlin. Ruthless, violent, and retired.
This novel is written in a florid prose style, and has a stream-of-consciousness aspect closest to Joyce's Ulysses and Mieville's Perdido Street Station.