Ugly person

Author: (USA) Westfeld
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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. That day, she will undergo a meticulous arrangement by the "Beauty Committee," transforming from an unpleasantly ugly girl into a stunningly beautiful woman, and thus enter a magnificent, high-tech fantasy paradise—"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 terrible choice: find Snow and "Dust," or forever lose the chance to become a stunning beauty! Leaving the talking room and discarding the interface ring that constantly monitors her, Tally boards a flying skateboard toward the legendary "Dust." Crossing the ruins 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" protects. However, her tracker causes the "Dust" to face utter devastation in an instant, and an even harder choice lies before her.
Tally effortlessly travels through time between 300 years in the past and the future, painting a dreamlike future world within hazy, vast fantasy clouds. It features anime-like images, 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 uniform aesthetic standards? This is a book worth reading by all, beautiful and not beautiful alike, sparking deep reflections on human destiny and depicting a fable-like, richly evocative masterpiece!