The Chrysalids
By: by John Wyndham.
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9781590172926
Subjects: Mutation (Biology) -- Fiction; Telepathy -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Genetic mutation has devastated the world and a bleak, primitive society has emerged from its ruins ; a society which punishes any deviation from rigid norms. Ten-year-old David is having strange dreams about a mysterious city. But in his ultra-religious village of Waknut, all abnormality is abhorred, and he soon realizes that differences can be very dangerous indeed.