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Trafford Sewell is confronted by the intimidating figure of his Parish Confessor. Why has Trafford not been streaming his every moment of sexual intimacy onto the community website like everybody else? Does he think he's different or special in some way? Does he have something to hide? Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where what a person 'feels' and 'truly believes' is protected under the law, while what is rational, even provable is condemned as heresy. A world where to question ignorance and intolerance is to commit a Crime against Faith. Ben Elton's dark, savagely comic novel imagines a post-apocalyptic society where religious intolerance combines with a confessional sex obsessed, self-centric culture to create a world where nakedness is modesty, ignorance is wisdom and privacy is a dangerous perversion. A chilling vision of what's to come? Or something rather closer to what we call reality?
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Ben Elton, geboren 1959 in London, studierte an der Universität von Manchester. Seine Romane "Letzter Countdown" und "Abgefahren" waren internationale Bestseller. Mit "Popcorn" (Manhattan, 54018) gelang ihm ein Kultbuch, das wochenlang Platz 1 der britischen Bestsellerlisten besetzt hielt und später auch als Theaterstück unter anderem in Berlin Furore machte. Ben Elton gilt als Englands populärster und erfolgreichster Comedy-Autor sowie stand-up comedian. Auf sein Konto geht auch die Serie BLACK ADDER mit "Mr. Bean" Rowan Atkinson.
