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Brilliant representation of authoritarian rule.

Slow-paced and dense to build tension around bureaucratic abuse, Aziz writes a remarkably subtle story of a city struggling to find peace and sanity among a jumble of reality-changing edicts and powerful authorities. Discusses various sources of authoritarian support: religion, military, corporate, economic, community, etc. An effective, enraging mirror to the world