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Todd Hewitt is the only boy in an all-male world in Prentisstown. In a month he will turn thirteen and, according to local law, he will also become a real man. Everyone in Prentisstown is looking forward to his birthday. Todd knows this because he can hear the thoughts of others, and they can hear him. Many years ago, the mysterious Noise Virus infected the men and animals of Prentissstown and wiped out all the women. At least that's what adults have always told Todd, and that's what he believed until he met it - terrifying, all-consuming, complete silence - and now, to escape the fate that Prentisstown has prepared for him, he must flee to a world that shouldn't exist, with a person who shouldn't exist.