The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic rules to ensure perfect happiness. And D-503, the Builder, is the ideal citizen, at least until he meets I-330, who opens his eyes to new ideas of love, sex and freedom.A foundational work of dystopian fiction, inspiration for both Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley's Brave New World, WE is a book of radical imaginings - of control and rebellion, surveillance and power, machine intelligence and human inventiveness, sexuality and desire. In this brilliant new translation, it is both a warning and a hope for a better world.
ISBN: | 9781838852368 |
Publisher: | Canongate Books |
Imprint: | Canongate |
Published date: | 07 Oct 2021 |
DEWEY: | 891.7342 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 304 |
Weight: | 226g |
Height: | 129mm |
Width: | 197mm |
Spine width: | 26mm |