Peter, Katarina and August ' three emotionally damaged children in Biehl's experimental school are all borderliners, under assessment by the authorities to determine their futures. Either they will be integrated with 'normal' children (under the Darwinian test of the survival of the fittest) or they will be relegated to institutions for the mentally defective. Fully alert to their guinea-pig status in Biehl's experiment, the three children decide to deregulate the clockwork mechanism which entraps them in the irresistible grip of Time, here employed as a servant of the system. Their attempt to escape from the school and expose its oppressive mechanisms is at the heart of Hřeg's searching, sensitive and enthralling novel. Both a chilling study of oppression in a school for disturbed children and, at another level, a probing study of the grip time has upon people, Borderliners demonstrates Peter Hřeg's imagination and intelligence working at full capacity. This 1996 The Harvill Press Paperback is in fair condition. Inscription inside; some tanning; white mark on text block but inside not effected. ISBN: 9781860461439 SKU: 1531520 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.
