Facial Justice - Penguin Modern Classics

'You'll never be happy until you can think and feel and look like other people . . .' Jael 97 is an Alpha. Deemed over-privileged for her beauty, she is compelled to report to the Ministry of Facial Justice, where her face will be reconstructed. For Jael lives in the New State, created out of the devastation of the Third World War. Under the rule of the Darling Dictator, citizens must wear sackcloth and ashes, and only a 17.5% quotum of personality is permitted to each. Anything that inspires envy is forbidden.But Jael cannot suppress her rebellious spirit. Secretly, she starts to reassert the rights of the individual, and decides to hunt down the faceless Dictator.'An exquisitely entertaining fantasy' Observer

ISBN:	9780141395067
Publisher:	Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Published date:	04 Sep 2014
DEWEY:	823.912
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xx, 210
Weight:	184g
Height:	197mm
Width:	131mm
Spine width:	14mm

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