Dyspotia genre books (10)


1.
A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess EN

Rating: 4     179 Votes
Description:
Still dazzling and transgressive, this groundbreaking novel remains a frightening fable on morality and the meaning of human freedom.
Recommended: 24 Feb 2023

2.

Blindness by José Saramago EN

Rating: 3.5     155 Votes
Country: Europe / Portugal flag Portugal
Description:
No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from one of Europe's greatest writers. A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read the textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. Trying to stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental asylum where the wards are terrorised by blind thugs. And when fire destroys the asylum, the inmates burst forth and the last links with... continue
Recommended: 20 Feb 2022

3.
I Who Have Never Known Men

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman EN

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Europe / Belgium flag Belgium
Recommended: 06 Mar 2023

4.
Ice

Ice by Anna Kavan EN

Rating: 5     1 Vote
Recommended: 13 Oct 2022

5.

Memory of Water : A Novel by Emmi Itäranta EN

Rating: 3.9     21 Votes
Country: Europe / Finland flag Finland
Description:
The award-winning speculative debut novel, now in English for the first time! In the far north of the Scandinavian Union, now occupied by the power state of New Qian, seventeen-year-old Noria Kaitio studies to become a tea master like her father. It is a position that holds great responsibility and a dangerous secret. Tea masters alone know the location of hidden water sources, including the natural spring that once provided water for her whole village. When Noria's father dies, the secret of the spring reaches the new military commander . . . and the power of the army is vast indeed. But the ... continue
Recommended: 31 Oct 2022

6.

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell EN

Rating: 4     589 Votes
Description:
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is unquestionably the most famous dystopian novel of all times. Written in the year of 1948, the author swapped the last two digits while describing a future totalitarian society where the minds, attitudes and actions of the subjects are thoroughly scrutinized by the "Thought Police", suspected dissidents tracked down and where the worship of the mythical party leader Big Brother is forced upon the masses. The low-ranking party member Winston Smith begins secretly to question the whole system and initiates a forbidden love affair with another party member.
Recommended: 06 Mar 2022

7.

The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag EN

Rating: 3.8     5 Votes
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
Stranger Things meets On the Road in this hypnotic, lavishly illustrated novel. Set in a post-apocalyptic 1997, The Electric State is the story of Michelle who, accompanied by her toy robot Skip, sets out across the western United States in a stolen car to find her missing brother. Told in achingly melancholy, spare prose and featuring almost a hundred gorgeous, full-colour illustrations, The Electric State is a novel like no other. Rights in The Electric State have already sold in thirteen territories and Deadline reports that the film rights were snapped up by the Russo Brothers' production ... continue
Recommended: 13 Oct 2022

8.

The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas EN

Rating: 4     17 Votes
Country: Europe / Norway flag Norway
Description:
In winter, the black ice cracks like a gunshot across the lake, growing thicker and darker every night. Nearby, a frozen waterfall transforms into a fantastic, baroque structure with dripping buttresses, flying spurs of ice and translucent, sparkling towers. The schoolchildren call it the ice palace. When eleven-year-old Unn arrives in the village, she avoids the other children- she lives alone with her aunt and nurses a secret grief. But her boisterous classmate Siss refuses to be ignored and the two girls strike up an intense friendship. That is, until Unn decides to explore the Ice Palace o... continue
Recommended: 13 Oct 2022

9.

The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist EN

Rating: 3.5     59 Votes
Country: Europe / Sweden flag Sweden
Description:
‘I liked The Unit very much... I know you will be riveted, as I was.’ Margaret Atwood ‘Echoing work by Marge Piercy and Margaret Atwood, The Unit is as thought-provoking as it is compulsively readable.’ Jessica Crispin, NPR.org Ninni Holmqvist’s eerie dystopian novel envisions a society in the not-so-distant future where men and women deemed economically worthless are sent to a retirement community called the Unit. With lavish apartments set amongst beautiful gardens and state-of-the-art facilities, elaborate gourmet meals, and wonderful music and art, they are free of financial worries and wa... continue
Recommended: 19 Apr 2022

10.
We

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin EN

0 Ratings
Country: Europe / Russia flag Russia
Recommended: 26 Jan 2023


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