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Tor Teen
March 2008
On Sale: May 18, 2008
432 pages
ISBN: 0765317672
EAN: 9780765317674
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Science Fiction
In an alternate world, in a nameless totalitarian city, the
autocratic Mayor rules the school system with an iron fist,
with the help of his Educators. Fighting against the Mayor
and his repressive Educators is a group of former students
called the Truancy, whose goal is to take down the system
by any means possible—at any cost. Against this backdrop, fifteen-year-old Tack is just trying
to survive. His days are filled with sadistic teachers,
unrelenting schoolwork, and indifferent parents. Things
start to look up when he meets Umasi, a mysterious boy who
runs a lemonade stand in an uninhabited district. Then someone close to Tack gets killed in the crossfire
between the Educators and the Truants, and Tack swears
vengeance. To achieve his purpose, he abandons his old life
and joins the Truancy. There, he confronts Zyid, an
enigmatic leader with his own plans for Tack. But Tack soon
finds himself torn between his desire for vengeance and his
growing sympathy for the Truants…. Isamu Fukui wrote Truancy during the summer of his
fifteenth year. The author’s purpose is not just to
entertain, but to make a statement about the futility of
the endless cycle of violence in the world as well as the
state of the educational system. And, as he put it, “I need
to be in school myself if I want to write about it.”
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