9781400042180 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, June 14, 2005, cover price $24.95 |
About this edition: A government redistributes its citizens into regions according to personality type, partitioning the country with barricades and razor wire, until a boy, taken from his family embarks on a mission that will change his life forever.
9781400076598 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, July 11, 2006), cover price $15.00 |
About this edition: Reacting to a inexorable decline into consumerism, turpitude, violence, and racism, a government redistributes its citizens into four separate regions according to personality type, partitioning the country with concrete barricades and razor wire, until a boy, taken from his family and raised to become the perfect civil servant, embarks on a mission that will change his life forever.