{"product_id":"we-by-yevgeny-zamyatin-9780140185850","title":"We","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's \u003cem\u003e1984\u003c\/em\u003e and foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, featuring a foreword by the National Book Award-winning \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e journalist Masha Gessen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYevgeny Zamyatin's \u003cem\u003eWe\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor', the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity—until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: he has an individual soul. Set in the twenty-sixth century AD, \u003cem\u003eWe\u003c\/em\u003e is the classic dystopian novel and was the forerunner of works such as George Orwell's \u003cem\u003e1984\u003c\/em\u003e and Aldous Huxley's \u003cem\u003eBrave New World\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was suppressed for many years in Russia and remains a resounding cry for individual freedom, yet is also a powerful, exciting, and vivid work of science fiction. Clarence Brown's brilliant translation is based on the corrected text of the novel, first published in Russia in 1988 after more than sixty years' suppression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47617309966572,"sku":"9780140185850","price":47.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780140185850-we.jpg?v=1778497162","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/we-by-yevgeny-zamyatin-9780140185850","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}