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SOLVED. Sci-Fi YA Book about Masks, "Choices" and hating Music [s]
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"All wear masks and are identified by a number (very reminiscent of the concentration camps...and fitting in nicely with the anti-semitic themes of the book); and due to his musical ability Gemm is ruled a deviant who is either to be forcibly recycled or "cured."" | "When the boy Gemm 16884 somehow feels moved to make music, an extinguished art, he is given a choice between being ""recycled"" (killed) or sent into virtual reality to experience the bad old days as a cure for his deviant desires." | "He is put through an alternate reality (in this case an actual historical reality) in which he is a Jew living in Strasbourg during the pestilence of 1349."
Quote from the book: "So many choices! He thought: A thousand choices! It occurred to him briefly that only twelve masks were ever available. Whenever a new model was introduced, an old one was recalled."
Here is the Google Books preview - https://books.google.com/books?id=Ny6...
There are different cover images.
Been a while since I checked this thread. But yes, that sounds exactly like what I was looking for. Thanks to you both.
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Anyway, the book is about a boy and his sister who live in a society where they have to wear masks, and where music is deemed illegal. Though the boy ends up getting so obsessed with music that he climbs up a hill and starts making noises and then gets arrested. Then a council throws him into a simulation where they show a jewish boy getting killed, supposedly because of his flute but really the jewish boy was a scapegoat for other problems.
Plus a recurring thing the society tries to state is that there are "One Thousand Choices".
Anyway this was from middle school book class, which was how I came to know of this to begin with. But if anyone does actually know of this book that'd be great.