{"product_id":"9781847496768","title":"We: New translation - Yevgeny Zamyatin","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe 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 all-powerful 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 Delta-503, 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, Zamyatin's 1921 seminal novel - here presented in Hugh Aplin's 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 twentieth-century history and a harbinger of the ominous future that may still lay ahead of us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yevgeny Zamyatin","offers":[{"title":"320 pages \/ 23\/11\/2017 \/ Classic science fiction","offer_id":57110740173175,"sku":"9781847496768","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781847496768.jpg?v=1779386608","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781847496768","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}