Shades of Grey

De: Jasper Fforde

Narrado por: Chris Harper, Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde's cult bestseller, re-recorded to celebrate the publication of the long-awaited sequel RED SIDE STORY.

Imagine a black and white world where colour is a commodity . . . It is a world invented by comic and creative genius - and Number One bestseller - Jasper Fforde.

Hundreds of years in the future, the world is an alarmingly different place.

Life is lived according to The Rulebook and social hierarchy is determined by your perception of colour. Eddie Russett is an above average Red who dreams of moving up the ladder by marriage to Constance Oxblood. Until he is sent to the Outer Fringes where he meets Jane - a lowly Grey with an uncontrollable temper and a desire to see him killed.

For Eddie, it's love at first sight. But his infatuation will lead him to discover that all is not as it seems in a world where everything that looks black and white is really shades of grey ...

If George Orwell had tripped over a paint pot or Douglas Adams favoured colour swatches instead of towels, neither of them would have come up with anything as eccentrically brilliant as Shades of Grey.

©2010 Jasper Fforde (P)2024 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

Reseñas de la Crítica

'No summaries can do justice to the sheer inventiveness, wit, complexity, erudition, unexpectedness and originality.' The Times

the story in general

I love the Thursday Next serirs, but had a real hard time reading this one. it took me years. finally I decided to try and listen and that did the trick. In a world where something heppend and social class is determined by the colors you can see, it is easy to hide secrets. That's what Eddie Russett has to learn...
my only problem with the book is that it felt like I really started to get it, halfway through. The only reason I didn't give up (again, listen I tried reading this book at least four times) was the narrator who was fabulous and made it more enjoyable then reading. however, I do feel.like some of the humor was left out due to the fact that Fforde loves puns. I think maybe I'll read the next one and not listen