Soon, the people in town begin to kill each other as revenge. Much better than the HBO movie. The sad life of a girl in the conservative island of Sicily, Italy. The author got in big trouble for writing this book and her family had to relocate. In this book from 1948, the author describes a totalitarian state where total obediance is required and no privacy exists - televisions are monitoring every move.
History is constantly rewritten, sex is forbidden, free speech is non-existant.
Except for the technology, the world described is similar to scientology. This book is strongly recommended by Robert Vaughn Young, former scientology media twister. In a future world, everyone is happy and you get enough food, drugs, entertainment and free sex. Many years later, Huxley wrote Brave New World Revisited , in which he compares today's life with the predictions of his book. The story of a little Steiff bear who was on board of the Titanic.