We takes place in a distant future, where humans are forced to submit their wills to the requirements of the state, under the rule of the allpowerful Benefactor, and dreams are regarded as a sign of mental illness. In a city of straight lines, protected by green walls and a glass dome, a spaceship is being built in order to spearhead the conquest of new planets. Its chief engineer, a man called Delta503, keeps a journal of his life and activities to his mathematical mind everything seems to make sense and proceed as it should, until a chance encounter with a woman threatens to shatter the very foundations of the world he lives in.Written in a highly charged, direct and concise style, Zamyatins 1921 seminal novel here presented in Hugh Aplins crisp translation is not only an indictment of the Soviet Russia of his time and a precursor of the works of Orwell and the dystopian genre, but also a prefiguration of much of twentiethcentury history and a harbinger of the ominous future that may still lay ahead of us.

Binding: Paperback;254 pages; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing plc; Classification: FLC; Weight: 350 g; Dimensions: 130 x 196 x 19

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