The Best of All Possible Worlds

August Wilhelmsen has a solid family background, is talented, has ambitions and an exciting job in the accounts department of the Ministry of Industry and Health. A beautiful partner, a dream of perfection and of being of some use.

He has a good life ahead of him.

For August lives in a highly regulated and rationally governed Norway. The aim of the country is to become a global leader, with the happiest inhabitants anywhere in the world. A country that encourages the good life so that people can realize their full potential, for their own happiness, and for the benefit of those closest to them and the society in which they live.

It can’t get any better.

Jan Grue has written a novel about tomorrow’s society, and thus also about the Norway of today. A society governed by the concept of profitability and the will to do good, by the belief that everything is measurable ... including the value of a life.

Praise

«The book is an eloquent and almost flawless text bearing the distinct signature of Grue.» Klassekampen

«The Best of All Possible Worlds does what a good dystopia should; it points toward what is problematic in our own society...What the author has concocted is an elaborate bogeyman, a cold world in which theories of life quality and actually-experienced life quality are blurred, and the power to define what is good enough no longer lies with the individual.» DEICHMAN.NO