Delirium

Synopsis

English : The first book in Lauren Oliver’s New York Times bestselling trilogy about forbidden love, revolution, and the power to choose. In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much looking forward to being cured and living a safe, predictable life. She watched love destroy her mother and isn't about to make the same mistake.

Ideas Explored

• Authoritarian Governance Model
• Conscience as Engineered Constraint
• Engineered Happiness Dystopia
• Love Classified as Disease
• Mandatory Body Modification Society
• Youth Resistance Movement Against Government Suppression

Metadata

Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: Children's fictionMaine, fictionLove, fictionScience fictionOrphans, fictionFamily life, fictionNew york times bestsellerNew York Times bestseller children's literatureLove storiesLove

isfdb_id: 1214616

openlibrary_id: OL27432616W

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