The Mark - 'Brilliant.' MARIANA ENRIQUEZ

''Absolutely stunning.'' Hernan Diaz ''Brilliant.'' Mariana Enriquez The Icelandic Psychological Association has prepared a test. They call it a sensitivity assessment -- a way of measuring a person''s empathy and identifying the potential for anti-social behaviour. In a few days'' time, Iceland will vote on whether to make the test compulsory for every citizen. The nation is bitterly divided. Some believe the test makes society safer; others decry it as a violation. As the referendum draws closer, four people - Vetur, Eyja, Tristan and Olafur - find themselves caught in the teeth of the debate. Each of them will have to reckon with uncomfortable questions: Where do the rights of society end and the rights of the individual begin? When does utopia become dystopia? No matter which side wins, they will all have to find a way to live with the result.

Product details

• Authors: 205, A, Fríða Ísberg, Frí240 sberg
• Assisted by: Larissa Kyzer (Translation)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.06.2024
• EAN: 9780571376742
• ISBN: 978-0-571-37674-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 230 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Dystopian, Iceland, Fiction in translation, Speculative fiction, Fiction: general and literary