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A thrilling debut of a postapocalyptic world for fans of The Hunger Games
Weaving philosophy and science together into a riveting, dystopian story of love and adventure, The Office of Mercy illuminates an all-too-real future imagined by a phenomenal new voice in fiction.
Twenty-four-year-old Natasha Wiley lives in America-Five—a high-tech, underground, utopian settlement where hunger and money do not exist, everyone has a job, and all basic needs are met. But when her mentor and colleague, Jeffrey, selects her to join a special team to venture Outside for the first time, Natasha’s allegiances to home, society, and above all to Jeffrey are tested. She is forced to make a choice that may put the people she loves most in grave danger and change the world as she knows it.
The Office of Mercy is speculative fiction at its best with a deeply imagined, lush world, high-stakes adventure, and romance that will thrill fans of Suzanne Collins, Margaret Atwood, Justin Cronin, and Kazuo Ishiguro.
- Sales Rank: #801611 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-02-21
- Released on: 2013-02-21
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
*Starred Review* In Djanikian’s horrifically brutal, compelling debut, postapocalyptic America is left peopled by two groups: those who live emotionally controlled existences in high-tech underground settlements such as America-Five, and the wild, emotionally fierce people of the Tribes, who are granted “mercy” by those in the underground settlements. Natasha Wiley works under the strangely intriguing Jeffrey Montague in America-Five’s Department of Mercy, where she spends her days tracking those unfortunate tribespeople who live haunted lives aboveground, struggling to feed themselves as they trek through the wilderness that sprang up after planned “sweeps” 305 years earlier obliterated 59 billion souls who were suffering immensely on an overcrowded planet. The Tribes are the descendants of those who survived. Since the original sweeps, America-Five and its sister settlements have granted “mercy” to more than 8 million people. Natasha has been raised to use logic rather than feelings, but seesawing emotions begin to grip her when she is plunged into a sweep herself and comes face-to-face with the very Tribe she is helping to exterminate. As she considers the actual consequences of her and her people’s actions, she must question everything and everyone she has ever held true, especially Jeffrey and the intense feelings she has developed for him. A grim muse on a future with shades of the Hunger Games, Djanikian’s first offering should attract readers voracious for this popular subgenre. --Julie Trevelyan
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"Emily Zeller delivers the combination of love, science, and philosophy in this debut novel with empathy and compassion. . . .Listeners of all ages will be engrossed by the stylish narration as well as the futuristic drama and surprise ending." ---AudioFile
About the Author
Ariel Djanikian graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004 and holds an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Michigan. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with her husband and daughter. The Office of Mercy is her first novel.
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
"All bad things live outside the walls."
By E. Bukowsky
In "The Office of Mercy," by Ariel Djanikian, massive overpopulation, economic collapse, crumbling infrastructure, and a critical shortage of food, water, and energy transform the earth into "a senseless, unethical jungle," with widespread political unrest and savage infighting. As a response to the resulting fear and chaos, an elite few, known as the Alphas, build closed settlements with advanced technologies that prolong life, eliminate "needless suffering," and keep outsiders at bay. Those who find this existence confining and/or distasteful are taught to build mental barriers sealing off their "anachronistic emotions."
We observe the proceedings from the perspective of Natasha Wiley, a sensitive and compassionate twenty-four year old who lives in America-Five, the largest community of its kind. She helps monitor the tribes who live off the land, much as cave-dwellers did in prehistoric times. Her superiors keep careful watch over these individuals in case they pose a threat or seem to be in imminent danger of perishing from starvation or disease. Djanikian challenges us to determine whether any human beings, no matter how sophisticated and evolved they consider themselves, should have the power of life and death over their more primitive brethren. In addition, is an eternal and pain-free life preferable to a finite and unpredictable existence filled with toil, boredom, joy, and sorrow? Even after we draw certain conclusions, Djanikian throws in interesting twists that impel us to reexamine our previously held assumptions.
The residents of America-Five wear "biosuits" and bed down in "sleeprooms"; babies are gestated in "incuvats"; and committing murder is euphemistically known as "sweeping." Each generation is identified by a Greek letter--Natasha is an Epsilon and the man she loves, who has been her mentor for several decades, is Jeffrey Montague, a Gamma. As in Orwell's "1984" and Huxley's "Brave New World," words have both political and moral implications. The book's conflict arises from the revulsion that Natasha feels when she realizes the horrifying implications of the policies she helps implement. Djanikian gives us ample reason to worry about the fate of a planet that, in some ways, is already spinning out of control. The author's evocative prose, rich description writing, penetrating dialogue, and imaginative plot make this a good choice for fans of thought-provoking dystopian fiction.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
An unconventional take on dystopian fiction (3.5 stars)
By TChris
Although the protagonist of The Office of Mercy is twenty-four, the writing style, themes, and plot are characteristic of Young Adult fiction. That's neither good nor bad, in my view, but it surprised me since the novel doesn't seem to be marketed as YA. (In that regard, the promotional comparisons to Margaret Atwood and Kazuo Ishiguro are unwarranted, although Suzanne Collins is more apt.)
Natasha Wiley works for the Office of Mercy, stationed in a wing attached to the Dome atop the underground settlement known as America-Five. The settlement is dedicated to "World Peace, Eternal Life, and All Suffering Ended," at least for those residing within its walls. Outside the utopian settlement live the (supposedly) starving and disease-ridden Tribespeople. Natasha's job is to monitor the nomadic Tribespeople who come within fifty miles of America-Five, using an array of cameras and sensors. Killing them (preferably with missile strikes) is the work of her colleagues in the Office of Mercy.
The Alphas, the generation that orchestrated the Storm (a genocidal extermination of nearly everyone not living underground), have the status of gods within the settlement. Why and how the Storm happened, and how the Alphas managed to convert underground bunkers into settlements, are largely unanswered questions, despite a cursory discussion of a failed past that seems to have been based on Marxism. In any event, Natasha is part of generation Epsilon; Jeffrey, her immediate supervisor (and romantic interest), is a Gamma. For reasons that are never adequately explained, new generations are grown on a schedule created by the Office of Reproduction. Cell replacement has all but conquered death while other technological advances assure an ample food supply for the settlement's inhabitants.
Like the other underground settlements, America-Five is governed by the Ethical Code, a book that has supplanted the Bible. Over the course of the novel, without the expository information dump that is prevalent in dystopian fiction, we learn how people like Natasha have been trained to think: their disdain for nature's beauty, their need to guard against empathy, their belief that those who live outside the Dome are not people but animals enduring hollow lives of suffering. As is common in dystopian novels, those who stray from correct thoughts are subjected to coercive "reeducation."
The novel's initial phases seem to set it on a predictable path, as Natasha struggles to cope with her hidden and forbidden doubts about the Ethical Code, particularly its insistence that, for the Tribespeople, death is better than pain. Like the plot, Natasha's immaturity, her insecurity about her abilities and her anxiety about whether Jeffrey reciprocates her romantic feelings, reminded me of YA fiction. Natasha's starry-eyed approach to Jeffrey is more indicative of a fourteen-year-old girl than a twenty-four-year old woman.
Midway through the book, a contrived plot twist that forces Natasha to redefine herself while forcing the reader to sympathize with Jeffrey left me rolling my eyes. Natasha's naiveté when dealing with the Tribespeople is flabbergasting. When the story reached a climactic moment that inexplicably shocks Natasha, I was muttering, "Well, what did you think was going to happen?"
Only the final chapter saves The Office of Mercy from mediocrity and predictability. For much of the novel, I thought the story would be about Natasha's moral growth, the story of a young woman in an insular society learning to think for herself. She seemed to be learning simplistic lessons like "killing the innocent is bad" and "empathy is good." In an unexpected twist, the story turns out to be something quite different. If The Office of Mercy is meant to teach a lesson -- and I think it is -- the teacher isn't Natasha at all, and the lesson is refreshingly ambiguous. I'm not sure every reader will appreciate the bleakness and uncertainty of the novel's last chapter, but I admired Ariel Djanikian's courage in telling a dystopian tale that has a dystopian ending. Perhaps that's why the novel isn't classified as YA when everything else about it, from the unchallenging writing style to the relatively unsophisticated characters, screams YA. In the end, I would recommend this to young adults (and, with some reservations, to older readers as well) just for its unconventional take on dystopian fiction. If I could, I would give The Office of Mercy 3 1/2 stars.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Couldn't connect
By Amazon Customer
The Story:
The Office of Mercy is set in a post-apocolyptic society called America Five that is sheltered within a glass dome. The story revolves around Natasha, who works in the Office of Mercy, responsible for relieving the people outside the dome of their suffering and extinguishing them. The citizens of the dome are taught from an early age to disconnect their empathies and put a wall up to prevent connecting with the tribes they were killing. When Natasha begins to have her doubts of America Five's true purpose and ethical beliefs, she embarks on a journey that will inevitably change everything she has ever known.
What I liked:
This is such an interesting concept. You probably know already that I love post-apocolyptic stories. This setting is so expertly crafted and well-told. The author went into great detail about the world within America Five's dome, and I love that. I love reading about how they live and what they do to survive. I love how it started right in the action and how I was a bit confused at the start. I love learning about the setting as I go.
This is essentially an ethics-story. The author really gets into Natasha's mind. She shares her struggles and her thoughts. I felt very connected with Natasha.
This book is intelligently written. I could tell how smart the author is by reading it, which is one major reason I had trouble disliking it. It's a smart book, however, I didn't connect with it.
Throughout the first half of the book, I was on the edge of my seat, waiting for some momentous event to take place, and I felt let-down by the lack of action and character connections. I assumed this was because it's not YA. Making the transition from YA to adult usually means a restlessness when things don't move as quickly or as dramatically. Things do happen. There is war and violence and sex and tension, but the writing is more intensely focused on the ethics and inner-conciousness. I can appreciate the intention of the writer to create a thought-provoking novel, and I can honestly say, it just wasn't for me. I wanted to light a fire under this story's butt and make something crazy happen. I wanted to be shocked. I wanted to gasp and cry, but like I said, this is an ethics story, so the obvious right/wrong wasn't always straight-forward.
As for the tribes, or the people living outside the dome, I had a hard time connecting with them, and I really wanted to. They just didn't feel real to me. They felt a little like caricatures, actually. I couldn't see them as real people. Naturally, I wanted to relate to them more than the people within the dystopian-like dome, but I just couldn't connect. This could have been intentional. This novel doesn't follow the generic formula of dystopian/post-apocolyptic novels. There are no "bad guys/good guys". I have to give the author credit for making something that should be so blatantly wrong, seem almost ethical.
I could see this story making its way into an ethics class. The writing is truly intelligent writing and I can see the importance of this story. I regret that I couldn't really enjoy it or get fully invested in Natasha's story.
However, I'm glad I read it and truly glad I finished it. The ending was a sucker punch.
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