
SHORTLISTED FOR THE OXFORD WEIDENFELD TRANSLATION PRIZE 2008 WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILL SELF The citizens of the One State live in a condition of `mathematically infallible happiness`. D-503 decides to keep a diary of his days working for the collective good in this clean, blue city state where nature, privacy & individual liberty have been eradicated. But over the course of his journal D-503 suddenly finds himself caught up in unthinkable & illegal activities
- love & rebellion. Banned on its publication in Russia in 1921, We is the first modern dystopian novel & a satire on state control that has once again become chillingly relevant.