The Architecture of Fear
On sale
24th April 2025
Price: £16.99
‘Brilliant, inventive and marvellously written’ ALBERTO MANGUEL
A world without walls, without curtains, is not believable.
Because there is no world without fears.
Walls, curtains, are the architecture of fear.
And the fear is us.
Thus spoke the Director.
At the heart of a forest there is a city is 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.
A world without walls, without curtains, is not believable.
Because there is no world without fears.
Walls, curtains, are the architecture of fear.
And the fear is us.
Thus spoke the Director.
At the heart of a forest there is a city is 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.
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