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Recommended dystopia books (2)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into dystopia here are some dystopia books from Scotland for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

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Gliff by Ali Smith EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Scotland flag Scotland
Description:
From a literary master, a moving and genre-bending story about our era-spanning search for meaning and knowing An uncertain near-future. A story of new boundaries drawn between people daily. A not-very brave new world. Add two children. And a horse. From a Scottish word meaning a transient moment, a shock, a faint glimpse, Gliff explores how and why we endeavour to make a mark on the world. In a time when western industry wants to reduce us to algorithms and data—something easily categorizable and predictable—Smith shows us why our humanity, our individual complexities, matter more than ever.... continue

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The Gracekeepers by Kirsty Logan EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Scotland flag Scotland
Description:
A shoreside burial coordinator who lives in self-enforced exile as penance for a long-ago mistake and a performer with a floating circus face unexpected life changes and new opportunities in the wake of an offshore storm. A first novel.