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The ten percent thief, Lavanya Lakshminarayan

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The ten percent thief

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Lavanya Lakshminarayan

"A bold, bitingly satirical near-future mosaic novel about a city run along 'meritocratic' lines, the injustice it creates, and the revolution that will destroy it"--, Provided by publisherWelcome to Apex City, formerly Bangalore, where everything is decided by the mathematically perfect Bell Curve. With the right image, values, and opinions, you can ascend to the glittering heights of the Twenty Percent-- the Virtual elite-- and have the world at your feet. Otherwise you risk falling to the Ten Percent, and deportation to the ranks of the Analogs: no access to electricity, running water. Denied even your humanity. The system has no flaws-- until the "Ten Percent Thief" steals a single jacaranda seed from the Virtual city.... -- adapted from jacket

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