Review

QualityLand, by Marc-Uwe Kling, presents a world of consumerism crashing in on itself

By David Ferrell
April 11 2020 - 12:00am
Author Marc-Uwe Kling. Picture: Getty Images
Author Marc-Uwe Kling. Picture: Getty Images
  • QualityLand, by Marc-Uwe Kling. Hachette. $22.99.

A dystopia is an exaggeration of its present. It samples the features of its contemporary world and slides them up to a natural extremity, before placing them back down and wandering around in them. In doing so it hopes to reveal in greater clarity the problems at the heart of those issues which inspire it, and perhaps a clearer course away from this future.

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