Ugly Person - "The First of the Ugly Person Trilogy"

Author: Westfield
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: In a perfect fantasy paradise 300 years later, Tally, like other children, eagerly awaits her sixteenth birthday. On that day, she will undergo a meticulous arrangement by the "Beauty Committee" to transform from an unpleasant ugly duckling into a breathtakingly beautiful woman, thus entering a magnificent high-tech fantasy paradise called "Beauty City." However, Tally's newly made friend, Snow, disappears. Snow leaves behind a mysterious note and a legend about "Dust." The "Special Situations Department" gives Tally a bad choice: find Snow and "Dust," or else she will forever lose the chance to become a breathtakingly beautiful woman! Leaving the talking room and discarding the interface ring that constantly monitors her, Tally glides on a flying skateboard toward the legendary "Dust." Crossing the remnants of the "Rust Kingdom," she personally experiences the natural charm of rivers, sunrises, and sunsets. The "Dust" that Tally sees leaves her both horrified and incredibly curious. She meets a mysterious boy named David, gradually learns about the existence of people who don’t want to become "beauties," and comes to understand the major secret hidden by the "Beauty City" that the "Dust" guards. However, her tracker leads to the near-total destruction of the "Dust" in an instant, and an even harder choice lies before her.
Tally effortlessly travels through time between 300 years in the past and the present, painting a dreamlike future world within hazy, magnificent fantasy clouds. The book features anime-like imagery, dazzling sci-fi scenes, and deeply moving friendships, love, and confusion of a teenage girl. Is perfection truly beautiful? Does beauty need individuality? Can people truly confront their inner selves and essence only by abandoning the cookie-cutter standards of beauty? This is a book worth reading for everyone, whether they consider themselves beautiful or not, as it provokes profound reflection on the fate of humanity and paints a fable-like, evocative, and magnificent picture!