Recommended by Barack Obama and Bill Gates as one of the most important novels about climate changeIndia, 2025. The country is hit by a merciless heat wave, with temperatures reaching over 50 degrees in some places. Hundreds of thousands of people die, sometimes entire neighbourhoods are wiped out. One of the survivors is Frank May, an aid worker. Severely traumatised, he moves to Switzerland to settle accounts with those he believes are partly responsible: the Ministry for the Future, whose job it actually is to prevent such disasters. In Mary Murphy, the chairwoman of the ministry, Frank unexpectedly finds an ally who, like him, is fighting climate change - albeit by other means ....