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THRESHOLD: The Last Burial
In a world that conquered time, he chose to grow old
In a future where technology has blurred biological aging, death, and the perception of time, humanity lives in an eternal, sanitized, and artificial youth. But on the margins of this cybernetic paradise, an old man stubbornly clings to the last vestiges of the physical the warmth of natural light, the taste of crusty bread, and the scent of freshly turned soil.
While his father, Tarel, looks physically younger than his own granddaughter, Nima, the protagonist becomes the final witness to the natural wear and tear of life. When his close friend Oda passes away, he is forced to face real grief in a society that has forgotten how to weep.
A slow-burn literary novel of measurement and near-future speculative fiction about a man of four hundred who begins shrinking back into a child, the seventy-eight-year-old son who measures him and cannot stop it, and the young people who pay to sit near someone who is going to die because they have never seen one .
In a future where technology has blurred biological aging, death, and the perception of time, humanity lives in an eternal, sanitized, and artificial youth. But on the margins of this cybernetic paradise, an old man stubbornly clings to the last vestiges of the physical the warmth of natural light, the taste of crusty bread, and the scent of freshly turned soil.
While his father, Tarel, looks physically younger than his own granddaughter, Nima, the protagonist becomes the final witness to the natural wear and tear of life. When his close friend Oda passes away, he is forced to face real grief in a society that has forgotten how to weep.
A slow-burn literary novel of measurement and near-future speculative fiction about a man of four hundred who begins shrinking back into a child, the seventy-eight-year-old son who measures him and cannot stop it, and the young people who pay to sit near someone who is going to die because they have never seen one .
698 pages, Paperback
Published August 31, 2026
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