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By: Yevgeny Zamyatin, Bela Shayevich (Translator)

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Hardcover | 12 November 2020

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336 Pages

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2.7 x 14.4 x 22.3

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A radical new translation of the dystopian classic that influenced George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, introduced by Margaret Atwood.

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 Chief Engineer D-503 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. It is both a warning and a hope for a better world.

About the Author

Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884–1937) was a Russian novelist and journalist who worked as an engineer in England before becoming a writer in his homeland.

His satirical and critical works earned him the displeasure of the Soviet regime and he spent the last few years of his life in exile in Paris.

Industry Reviews

The best single work of science fiction yet written
Ursula K. Le Guin

Two of the most iconic novels in the English language - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell - owe an enormous debt to Zamyatin. We is the ur-text of science-fiction dystopias . . . the product of a powerful imagination
* * Wall Street Journal * *

The prototype . . . Zamyatin is a major artist
* * New York Times * *

It is in effect a study of the Machine, the genie that man has thoughtlessly let out of its bottle and cannot put back again
George Orwell

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