21%OFF
The Method
Juli Zeh
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for The Method
Paperback. Mia Holl lives in a state governed by The Method, where good health is the highest duty of the citizen. Everyone must submit medical data and sleep records to the authorities on a monthly basis, and regular exercise is mandatory. Mia is young and beautiful, a successful scientist who is obedient but with an intellect that marks her as subversive. Translator(s): Spencer, Sally-Ann. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 174.
Mia Holl lives in a state governed by The Method, where good health is the highest duty of the citizen. Everyone must submit medical data and sleep records to the authorities on a monthly basis, and regular exercise is mandatory.
Mia is young and beautiful, a successful scientist who is outwardly obedient but with an intellect that marks her as subversive. Convinced that her brother has been wrongfully convicted of a terrible crime, Mia comes up against the full force of a regime determined to control every aspect of its citizens' lives.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099551768
SKU
V9780099551768
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Juli Zeh
Juli Zeh was born in 1974 and lives in Brandenburg. She studied International Law, worked with the UN in New York, and completed her studies in Creative Writing. Juli Zeh has won numerous awards, including the international Per Olov Enquist Award and the French Prix Cévennes for Best European Novel. Her work has been translated into thirty languages.
Reviews for The Method
This is a brilliant, disturbing and wildly imaginative picture of the nanny state run mad; how far should the State be allowed to poke its nose into a citizen's business?
Kate Saunders
Times
Zeh seems to have won every European literary prize going...Three years since its first publication in German (it is translated here with tremendous gusto ... Read more
Kate Saunders
Times
Zeh seems to have won every European literary prize going...Three years since its first publication in German (it is translated here with tremendous gusto ... Read more