{"product_id":"we-9780380633135","title":"We","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYevgeny Zamyatin's page-turning science fiction adventure, a masterpiece of wit and black humor that accurately predicted the horrors of Stalinism, \u003cem\u003eWe\u003c\/em\u003e is the classic dystopian novel that became the basis for the tales of Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Margaret Atwood, among so many others. Its message of hope and warning is as timely at the beginning of the twenty-first century as it was at the beginning of the twentieth.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the One State of the great Benefactor, there are no individuals, only numbers. Life is an ongoing process of mathematical precision, a perfectly balanced equation. Primitive passions and instincts have been subdued. Even nature has been defeated, banished behind the Green Wall. But one frontier remains: outer space. Now, with the creation of the spaceship \u003cem\u003eIntegral, \u003c\/em\u003e that frontier -- and whatever alien species are to be found there -- will be subjugated to the beneficent yoke of reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne number, D-503, chief architect of the \u003cem\u003eIntegral, \u003c\/em\u003e decides to record his thoughts in the final days before the launch for the benefit of less advanced societies. But a chance meeting with the beautiful 1-330 results in an unexpected discovery that threatens everything D-503 believes about himself and the One State. The discovery -- or rediscovery -- of \u003cem\u003einner\u003c\/em\u003e space...and that disease the ancients called the soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eZamyatin, Yevgeny:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eYevgeny Zamyatin was born in Russia in 1884. Arrested during the abortive 1905 revolution, he was exiled twice from St. Petersburg, then given amnesty in 1913. \u003cem\u003eWe, \u003c\/em\u003e composed in 1920 and 1921, elicited attacks from party-line critics and writers. In 1929, the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers launched an all-out attack against him. Denied the right to publish his work, he requested permission to leave Russia, which Stalin granted in 1931. Zamyatin went to Paris, where he died in 1937.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMirra Ginsburg is a distinguished translator of Russian and Yiddish works by such well-known authors as Mikhail Bulgakov, Isaac Babel, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. Editor and translator of three anthologies of Soviet science fiction, she has also edited and translated \u003cem\u003eA Soviet Heretic: Essays by Yevgeny Zamyatin, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHistory of Soviet Literature\u003c\/em\u003e by Vera Alexandrova. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Voyager","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50617119473938,"sku":"9780380633135","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_af933061-e7fa-4340-8836-f22456403afe.jpg?v=1748519614","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/we-9780380633135","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}