Téměř dokonalý svět – Gounelle Laurent (2024)

The new book by the world-renowned bestselling author of The Man Who Wanted to Be Happy and The Day I Learned to Live is a fresh initiation novel that awakens in the reader an indomitable desire to make decisions for oneself, fully enjoy freedom, and once again become the master of one's life. Isn't the ability to make decisions one of those essential things that make a person human and give meaning to human life? This seemingly obvious truth is often not recognized by people at all. This is also true for David Lisner, a young ambitious programmer who relies primarily on his intellect. David lives in the territory of the 'Ordinaries,' in a technologically advanced society that meticulously cares for the well-being of each individual. Not far from there lies an island where the 'Displaced' have retreated, having rebelled against this over-technologized society and chosen to live according to their own philosophy. One day, David Lisner is assigned a top-secret mission by the security services: he is to venture into hostile territory among the 'Displaced' and make contact with a woman named Eva Montoya, the niece and sole heir of the recently deceased prominent sociologist Robert Sol. The goal is to seize his scientific report, which could fundamentally...