Rank 91 of 100
The Giver
Synopsis
Jonas lives in a community that has deleted pain, weather, and choice, and at twelve he is assigned to receive every memory the others gave up. Lowry’s calm prose makes the absence feel like kindness, right up until a child understands what was traded away to buy it.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1993
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Dystopian, Coming of age
- Audience
- Young adult
- Era
- 1946–1999
- Movement
- Contemporary
- Series
- The Giver
- Length
- About 208 pages
- Reported copies
- Tens of millions of copies
- Kind
- Fiction