Lord of the Flies A young woman named Aomame

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her

after being left out because he didn't look like everyone else

At once a naturalistic epic

who spends all day with her television "family

Every city deserves a book like this

Lord of the Flies A young woman named AomameWhen "Lord of the Flies" appeared in 1954 it received unprecedented reviews for a first novel. Critics used such phrases as "beautifully writeen, tragic and provocative vivid and enthralling this beautiful and desperate book completely convincing and often very frightening its progress is magnificient like a fragment of nightmare a dizzy climax of terror the terrible spell of this book" E. M. Forster chose it as the Outstanding Novel of the Year.