Matin Brun
1998
First Published
3.82
Average Rating
26
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Brown Morning recounts the story of two easy-going friends amid the sinister machinations of the regime under which they are living. On the surface everything seems to be fine. People go about their everyday business, they meet in cafes and chat, and sit in the sunshine. Then, gradually, new laws are introduced. Or, rather, old laws are amended. It begins with the pets the State Scientists have discovered that brown dogs and cats are better suited to the modern urban environment than other animals. They are healthier, live longer, and have smaller litters. The end result is a world in which all is brown. The military police wear brown uniforms, the dogs and cats are brown, even the language begins to change as the word 'brown' is tagged on to everyday phrase. A short book by a previously obscure provincial writer, from an obscure publisher, has, by stealth and by word of mouth, become The French literary sensation of the past year. Shooting up the bestseller charts in the wake of Le Pen's 18 per cent share of the vote, and adopted by schools and human rights organisations, sales to date of Brown Morning are approaching 300,000 copies in France alone. A miniature Nineteen Eighty-Fou
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