10 Seniors. 10 Days. No Medication. Who survives the bureaucratic island nightmare in the dark satire The Sunset Games?
LEIDEN, NETHERLANDS
What happens when the government decides to slash healthcare budgets and forces ageing citizens to "voluntarily" compete in a ruthless survival game? Author Uenk delivers a razor-sharp, cynical, and pitch-black satire with The Sunset Games, dragging readers to a tropical island where the rules are as simple as they are merciless.
In The Sunset Games, ten senior citizens—ranging from a retired gardener with Crohn's disease and a former care coordinator with early-stage dementia, to a married couple harboring forty years of suppressed resentment—are dropped onto La Isla del Sol. There are no daily prescription refills and no comfortable armchairs; instead, they face a ten-day trek from a scorching coastline up to the smoking crater of Red Mountain Peak. Orchestrated by the mysterious 'G.' in an immaculate white suit, the game serves as a biting, brutal commentary on healthcare pressures, institutional red tape, and society’s disposal of its elderly.
"It’s pulp satire in its purest form," says UENK PulpWorks. "Beneath the thin veneer of an absurd reality show parody lies a painfully relevant story about regret, human dignity, and what remains when society has already written you off."
The Sunset Games balances precariously on the edge of the hilarious and the heart-breaking. As the contestants navigate mangrove swamps and choking dust storms, decades-old secrets and marital fractures disintegrate. What remains is raw survival instinct—and an ultimate reckoning with bureaucracy at the summit of a volcano.
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