The Mark : 'Brilliant.' MARIANA ENRIQUEZ - Friða Isberg
Friða Isberg
- Pages · 304 pages
- Publication Date · 03/07/2025
- Genre · Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Searingly brilliant . . . [Isberg] like George Orwell and Anthony Burgess before her, lets the dystopian ironies speak for themselves.'TLS
'Absolutely stunning.' HERNAN DIAZ'A masterpiece.' KAVEH AKBAR A debut novel of urgent big ideas imbued with pacy plotting and atmospheric power, by an exciting new talent. The Icelandic Psychological Association has prepared a test. They call it a sensitivity assessment: a way of measuring a person's empathy and identifying the potential for anti-social behaviour. In a few days' time, Iceland will vote on whether to make the test compulsory for every citizen. The nation is bitterly divided. Some believe the test makes society safer; others decry it as a violation. As the referendum draws closer, four people - Vetur, Eyja, Tristan and Olafur - find themselves caught in the teeth of the debate. Each of them will have to reckon with uncomfortable questions: Where do the rights of society end and the rights of the individual begin? When does utopia become dystopia? No matter which side wins, they will all have to find a way to live with the result.
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