AMATEA: Memoirs of the Last City (English Edition)

Cover of Saskia Karge's novel "AMATEA: Memoirs of the Last City (English Edition)"

“To save the world, we had sacrificed everything that made us human. Amatea had become the last bastion of humankind – but no longer of humanity.”

Ruth Bernstein wanted to build a paradise. As a brilliant young prodigy, she designed Amatea: a self-sufficient, green utopia intended to harmonize humanity with nature.

But when a global catastrophe brings civilization to its knees, Ruth realizes her dream has been hijacked. Her designs haven’t just been built—they have been weaponized. Under the guise of salvation, a charismatic elite has turned Amatea into a golden cage for the chosen few, while the rest of the world burns.

Trapped in the city she created, surrounded by people she thought she could trust, Ruth must face a terrifying question: Is she the architect of a new future, or an accomplice to the greatest crime in history?

Solarpunk meets Dystopia – a harrowing biography of hope, guilt, and the high price of survival.