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- ISBN 9781916291423
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 08 Apr 2021
- Publisher: Tramp Press
- Publication City/Country: IE
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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No one hast ever left the Line, nor shalt thou. To do so wouldst dishonour the sacrifices of all those gone before.
No one hast ever left the Line, nor shalt thou. To do so wouldst mean thy family must pay your penance.
Thou mayst leave thy place in the Line but only once – when thou dost marry.
But thou can only move down the Line, never up. For that is how thou will know it is true love.
And because moving up would be skipping.
And that is the most important rule of all.
Thou Shalt Not Skip The Line.
Thou Shalt Not Skip The Line.
Willard, his mother and his girlfriend Nyla have spent their entire lives in an endless journey where daily survival is dictated by the ultimate imperative: obey the rules, or you will lose your place in the Line. Everything changes the day Willard's mother dies and he finds an incomprehensible book hidden among her few belongings...
LINE pushes the boundaries of speculative, high-concept fiction. Deeply moving, it also touches on many of the pressing issues of our turbulent world: migration and the refugee criss, big data and the erosion of democracy, climate change, colonialism, economic exploitation, social conformity, and religious fanaticism.
Niall Bourke is a writer and a teacher. His work has been published widely in magazines and journals in Ireland and the UK, and his poems and stories have been short-listed for numerous awards, including the Costa Short Story Award and the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award. He lives in South London with his partner, his daughter and his cat.
