Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron by Fforde, Jasper. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780670019632.

From the bestselling author of Thursday Next€”a brilliant new novel about a world where social order and destiny are dictated by the colors you can see Part social satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller, Shades of Grey tells of a battle against overwhelming odds. In a society where the ability to see the higher end of the color spectrum denotes a better social standing, Eddie Russet belongs to the low-level House of Red and can see his own color€”but no other. The sky, the grass, and everything in between are all just shades of grey, and must be colorized by artificial means. Eddies world wasnt always like this. Theres evidence of a never-discussed disaster and now, many years later, technology is poor, news sporadic, the notion of change abhorrent, and nighttime is terrifying: no one can see in the dark. Everyone abides by a bizarre regime of rules and regulations, a system of merits and demerits, where punishment can result in perm