'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
- ISBN10 0141395060
- ISBN13 9780141395067
- Publish Date 4 September 2014 (first published 21 May 1987)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Penguin Classics
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 240
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/isbn/9780141395067