We - by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>A dystopian novel, completed in 1921 as a response to the author's experience with the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917. It foreshadows the terrors of Stalinism.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>The chilling dystopian novel that influenced George Orwell while he was writing <em>1984, </em>with a new introduction by Margaret Atwood and an essay by Ursula Le Guin</strong><br/><br/>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.</p><p>Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, <em>We</em> 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. Bela Shayevich's bold new translation breathes new life into Yevgeny Zamyatin's seminal work and refreshes it for our current era. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>The founding document of dystopian literature, written in the Soviet Union in 1921, comes in for a fresh translation. . . . Zamyatin's all-seeing state is sufficiently chilling. . . . Translator Shayevich does a good job of preserving [Zamyatin's] affectless, sometimes nearly robotic prose, and the book is highly readable--and indeed should be read. A science-fiction classic, many of whose contours have become all too real.--<em>Kirkus Reviews </em><strong>(starred review)</strong><br>
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