The Lakshminarayan, Lavanya creator Author text novel enk UK Solaris 2023 monographic eng

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344 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm "A bold, bitingly satirical near-future mosaic novel about a city run along 'meritocratic' lines, the injustice it creates, and the revolution that will destroy it"-- Welcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, where everything is decided by the mathematically perfect Bell Curve. With the right image, values, and opinions, you can ascend to the glittering heights of the Twenty Percent-- the Virtual elite-- and have the world at your feet. Otherwise you risk falling to the Ten Percent, and deportation to the ranks of the Analogs: no access to electricity, running water. Denied even your humanity. The system has no flaws-- until the "Ten Percent Thief" steals a single jacaranda seed from the Virtual city.... -- adapted from jacket by Lavanya Lakshminarayan "Revised and updated from Analog/Virtual first published 2020 by Hachette India" -- page opposite title page. Virtual reality Fiction Social stratification Fiction Social classes Fiction Revolutions Fiction 823.92 LAK/T 9781837860777 (pbk.) IN-BhIIT 231027 20260107174914.0 11215