Surrender

<p><b>[A] riveting and original achievement.--<i>WIRED</i></b> <p/><b>From award-winning Spanish author Ray Loriga comes a dystopian novel about authority manipulation and the disappearance of privacy that calls to mind <i>The Handmaid's Tale</i> by Margaret Atwood [and] <i>Blindness</i> by José Saramago (Alfaguara Prize Winner Citation).</b> <p/> Ten long years have passed since war first broke out and one couple still does not know the whereabouts of their children or what their country is even fighting for. They follow orders and their lives go by simply routinely until--one day--a mute boy walks onto their property. When the authorities announce that the area needs to be evacuated and that everyone must relocate to the transparent city the three leave together. <p/> At first the city proves to be a paradise: a stunning glass dome of endless highways buildings trains and markets. Everything its inhabitants need is provided to them--food protection shelter--and the family quickly unquestioningly settles into their new life. But soon a sinister underlay begins to emerge. Neither secrets nor walls are permitted here and strict order authoritarian calm and transparency must always reign supreme. <p/> In a society in which everything private is public the most chilling portent of our future emerges. <i>Surrender</i> is an urgent novel about dignity and rebellion and the lengths we go to preserve love hope and humanity. <p/><b>Loriga envisions in this gripping tale an unsettling dystopia in which all secrets are forbidden...This memorable page-turner will appeal to fans of <i>Brave New World</i>.--<i>Publishers Weekly </i></b></p>