Description
Title: Kallocain
Author: BOYE KARIN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 05/09/2023
Imprint: PENGUIN CLASSIC
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
The classic dystopian novel from Sweden, written at the midpoint between Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four
Leo Kall is a zealous, middle-ranking scientist in the totalitarian World State who has just made a thrilling discovery- a new drug, Kallocain, that will force anyone who takes it to tell the truth. At last, criminality will be dragged out into the open and private thought can finally be outlawed. But can the World State be trusted with Kallocain? For that matter – can Kall himself be trusted?
Written as the terrible events of the Second World War were unfolding, Karin Boye’s classic dystopian novel speaks more clearly than ever of the dangers of acquiescence, and the power of resistance, no matter how futile.
ISBN: 9780241608302
Weight: 145g
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 192