They (Faber Editions) av Kay Dick

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<p><b>As heard on BBC Radio 4''s Front Row: the radical dystopian classic, lost for forty years: in a nightmarish Britain, THEY are coming closer¿</b><br><br>''A creepily prescient tale ... Insidiously horrifying!'' <b>Margaret Atwood</b><br>''A masterpiece of creeping dread.'' <b>Emily St. John Mandel</b><br><br>This is Britain: but not as we know it. <br>THEY begin with a dead dog, shadowy footsteps, confiscated books. Soon the National Gallery is purged; eerie towers survey the coast; mobs stalk the countryside destroying artworks - and those who resist.<br>THEY capture dissidents ¿ writers, painters, musicians, even the unmarried and childless ¿ in military sweeps, ¿curing¿ these subversives of individual identity.<br>Survivors gather together as cultural refugees, preserving their crafts, creating, loving and remembering. But THEY make it easier to forget ...<br><br>Lost for half a century, newly introduced by <b>Carmen Maria Machado</b>, Kay Dick''s <i>They</i> (1977) is a redisc