Inverted World (New York Review Books Classics)

Inverted World (New York Review Books Classics)

The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city and carefully removed in its wake. Rivers and mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the cityâ€™s engineers. But if the city does not move, it will fall farther and farther behind the â€œoptimumâ€ into the crushing gravitational field that has transformed life on Earth. The only alternative to progress is death.
The secret directorate that governs the city makes sure that its inhabitants know nothing of this. Raised in common in crÃ¨ches, nurtured on synthetic food, prevented above all from venturing outside the closed circuit of the city, they are carefully sheltered from the dire necessities that have come to define human existence. And yet the city is in crisis. The people are growing restive, the population is dwindling, and the rulers know that, for all their efforts, slowly but surely the city is slipping ever farther behind the optimum.
Helward Mann is a member of the cityâ€™s elite. Better than anyone, he knows how tenuous is the cityâ€™s continued existence. But the worldâ€”he is about to discoverâ€”is infinitely stranger than the strange world he believes he knows so well.
Country USA
Brand New York Review of Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781590172698
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2008-07-22
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590172698

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review of Books
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781590172698
Color	Grey
ReleaseDate	2008-07-22
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781590172698

Inverted World (New York Review Books Classics)

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