Shades of gray
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Shades of gray
9.99 €
7.99 €
For as long as man can remember, the world has been ruled by Colorocracy. Color dominates society: from the underground pipes that keep the greenery alive in a city park to the healing hues considered to cure diseases. Social hierarchy is also built on color: the fewer colors you see, the lower your status. In this world, you are what you can see.
Young Eddie Brown has no aspirations to be anything other than a loyal trudge of the Collective. With his more subtle perception of the color red, he may well marry Constance Maren and inherit her family's plant. He might even have enough red perception to take the position of perfekt. For Eddie, life looks colorful. Life looks good. But everything changes when he moves with his father, a respected color picker, to East Carmine. There he falls in love with a "gray" named Jane, who opens his eyes to the painful truth hidden in a seemingly perfect but tightly controlled society. Curiosity - a dangerous trait not to be shown - takes over Eddie, and he begins to ask questions. Why are there not enough spoons? What happened to those who didn't return from Upper Saffron? And why, when you start to question the world around you, is black and white certainty reduced to shades of gray?
Social satire with a touch of revolutionary thriller.
Young Eddie Brown has no aspirations to be anything other than a loyal trudge of the Collective. With his more subtle perception of the color red, he may well marry Constance Maren and inherit her family's plant. He might even have enough red perception to take the position of perfekt. For Eddie, life looks colorful. Life looks good. But everything changes when he moves with his father, a respected color picker, to East Carmine. There he falls in love with a "gray" named Jane, who opens his eyes to the painful truth hidden in a seemingly perfect but tightly controlled society. Curiosity - a dangerous trait not to be shown - takes over Eddie, and he begins to ask questions. Why are there not enough spoons? What happened to those who didn't return from Upper Saffron? And why, when you start to question the world around you, is black and white certainty reduced to shades of gray?
Social satire with a touch of revolutionary thriller.
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