Publisher's Synopsis
In a world where breathing is a privilege and truth filters through like air, each inhalation can be an act of submission... or rebellion.
In the dark galleries of New Camel, M-11.023 has spent his life working underground, trusting that the smokers-devices that promise to protect humanity from a lethal environment-are the only barrier between life and death. But when his son falls gravely ill despite all precautions, a forbidden doubt begins to take root: what if everything they've been told about the air, about history, about disease itself, is a carefully constructed lie?
As the health bureaucracy and state surveillance close in around his family, M-11.023 will be forced to choose between the obedience that guarantees survival and the desperate search for a truth that could cost him everything. In a society where questioning is dangerous and remembering the past is a crime, hope becomes the most subversive act of all.
Artificial Respiration is a disturbing and deeply human dystopian novel about the price of conformity, the fragility of memory, and the power of a single question capable of changing everything. Do you dare discover what lies behind the mask?
