Description
In a utopian city called Four-BEE, life is curated from cradle to long, untroubled years—yet beneath the comfort lies a restless hunger for freedom. When a former lover/friend, Danor, returns to the narrator’s world, the city’s carefully managed pleasures and identities begin to fracture, forcing hard questions about choice, desire, and what it really means to live on one’s own terms. As the narrator is drawn back into the orbit of “jang” teen-ager wildness and the shifting bonds of friendship and love, the story explores transformation, self-invention, and the cost of paradise. With Tanith Lee’s signature lyrical intensity and imaginative edge, this novel blends speculative social vision with intimate emotional stakes, inviting readers to reconsider utopia as both promise and trap.
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paperback
Hamlyn Publishing Group
Published Jul 5, 1979
304 pages
ISBN: 9780600330011
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First Published
1977
Language
eng
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