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In a glass-enclosed city of perfectly straight lines, ruled
over by an all-powerful "Benefactor," the citizens of the
totalitarian society of OneState are regulated by spies and
secret police; wear identical clothing; and are distinguished
only by a number assigned to them at birth. That is, until D-
503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery:
he has an individual soul. He can feel things. He can fall in
love. And, in doing so, he begins to dangerously veer from the
norms of his society, becoming embroiled in a plot to destroy
OneState and liberate the city.
Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, We was the forerunner of
canonical works from George Orwell and Alduous Huxley, among
others.
It was suppressed for more than sixty years in Russia
and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, as well as
a powerful, exciting, and vivid work of science fiction that
still feels relevant today.
The chilling dystopian novel that influenced George Orwell
while he was writing 1984, with a new introduction by Margaret
Atwood and an essay by Ursula Le Guin
Originally written in 1924!
We: A Novel | Paperback
Yevgeny Zamyatin | Bela Shayevich | Margaret Atwood
HarperCollins | Ecco
Fiction / Dystopian / Literary / Classics
Release date Nov 2, 2021
$16.99 US list price
Commentary: I read an earlier release of this a few years ago.
It wasn't as action packed as I hoped it would be. Even at
under 200 pages, it covered all the "issues" quite well. The
government controlled sex was interesting.
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