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The Mark

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The Mark

By: Fríða Ísberg, Larissa Kyzer - translator
Narrated by: Peta Cornish, Laurence Dobiesz
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The Icelandic Psychological Association has prepared a test. They call it a sensitivity assessment -- a way of measuring a person's empathy and identifying the potential for anti-social behaviour.

In a few days' time, Iceland will vote on whether to make the test compulsory for every citizen. The nation is bitterly divided. Some believe the test makes society safer; others decry it as a violation.

As the referendum draws closer, four people - Vetur, Eyja, Tristan and Ólafur - find themselves caught in the teeth of the debate. Each of them will have to reckon with uncomfortable questions: Where do the rights of society end and the rights of the individual begin? When does utopia become dystopia?

No matter which side wins, they will all have to find a way to live with the result.

©2024 Fríða Ísberg (P)2024 Faber & Faber
Dystopian Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Political Science Fiction
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