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I spent the afternoon reading an amazing little book. Actually, I only opened it to see what the writing was like, but I was so captivated by the thread of the story that I just kept going. It's GENESIS by Bernard Beckett and I don't quite know what to tell you about it, so here's a bit from Amazon--but don't read too much else or it will ruin things for you. It's only 150 pp--see if you can get it from the library.

Anax, the dedicated student historian at the center of Beckett's brutal dystopian novel, lives far in the future-the distant past events of the 21st century are taught in classrooms. The world of that era, we learn, was ravaged by plague and decay, the legacy of the Last War. Only the island Republic, situated near the bottom of the globe, remained stable and ordered, but at the cost of personal freedom. Anax, hoping her scholarly achievements will gain her entrance to the Academy, which rules her society, has extensively studied Adam Forde, a brilliant and rebellious citizen of the Republic who fought for human dignity in the midst of a regimented, sterile society. To join the Academy's ranks, Anax undergoes a test before three examiners, and as the examination progresses, it becomes clear that her interpretations of Adam's life defy conventional thought and there may be more to Adam-and the Academy-than she had imagined.