What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Shades of Grey
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SOLVED. Fantasy/ Allegory: People born with different colors that determine place in society. [s]
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An Uncommon Blue by R.C. Hancock?Colorblind by Aditya Chowdhury?
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde?
Red Rising by Pierce Brown?
SOLVED! Thank you Juels. It is "Shades of Grey" by Jasper Fforde.It's not people born with color, but color perception. I did not recognise the title during a google search, but then it is very hard to search when you include the keyword "color". Most results were for books about, or books written by people of color. Which is sort of funny here since Shades of Grey is largely about personal and institutionalised discrimination/race/castes .. but really the metaphor is color perception.
Robert wrote: "Read around 2010, likely published some time ago.
Basic plot: children are born with different colors: red, green, blue, etc. This sort of determines their place in society, who they can marry (cer..."
What's the Name of That Book???
Books mentioned in this topic
An Uncommon Blue (other topics)Colorblind (other topics)
Shades of Grey (other topics)
Red Rising (other topics)
Authors mentioned in this topic
R.C. Hancock (other topics)Aditya Chowdhury (other topics)
Jasper Fforde (other topics)
Pierce Brown (other topics)
Basic plot: children are born with different colors: red, green, blue, etc. This sort of determines their place in society, who they can marry (certain colors mix). Some of the characters hear of a far away city and try to reach it, but it is dangerous. They arrive to find a plaza with colored tiles. It turns out that the colors are actually people that have been "exported" (tricked) into leaving for a sort of promised land.