The Architecture of Fear – Sandro William Junqueira

Description

Translated into English for the first time, a bold and unsettling literary fable about a dystopian city which explores the dynamics of power and oppression, and the silent strength of revolt.

At the heart of a forest there is a city surrounded by walls.

Inside, the people are haunted by the memory of The Great Disaster that eliminated two thirds of their population.

A dictatorial regime insists that order and discipline will protect the people from the threats of nature, but when a soldier is found mutilated outside the city walls on a winter’s night, a new order takes root silently in the minds of the oppressed.

One by one, they gather to listen to the voice of a man claiming to possess the gift of knowing what is to come. The man known as The Messenger.