by Blandine Le Callet · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782253161752
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«La Ballade de Lila K» is the dystopian science fiction novel by Blandine Le Callet, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (354 pages, in French).
In a future where books have been banished, Lila K is separated from her mother and locked in a centre that functions as both boarding school and prison. Gifted and asocial, she has forgotten her previous life and only wishes to recover her memory and find her mother again. Her chaotic learning in an aseptic world confronts her with identity and freedom.
Originally published by Stock in 2010, this paperback edition is from Le Livre de Poche (2012). It won the Prix Culture et Bibliothèques pour tous 2011 and the Prix des lecteurs du Livre de Poche 2012.
For readers of dystopias and French fiction, with a protagonist whose search for identity and memory sustains the entire novel.
