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Brown Morning Franck Pavloff A best-selling allegory, written in protest when extreme right-wing politician Jean Marie Le Pen surged in popularity in France You are living a fine life. You read the newspaper and play cards with friends. Gradually-things start to change. You are told that brown is the only acceptable color: if you have a black dog, put it to sleep. Buy a brown one. Add "brown" at the end of each sentence. Books are being burned. But you don't notice. People still go to cafes; you feel secure. You get a friendly new brown dog—how nice! Only later do you realize that you have been a willing victim to a government that demands your conformity in all things. And by the time realization hits—it's too late. Franck Pavloff's international best-selling allegory was written as a protest when the Rhone-Alps region of France leaned to the politics of the extreme right. Originally published in French, Brown Morning has now sold over 500,000 copies in Europe. It is a powerful wake-up call to all individuals to pay attention to what their governments are doing—and how they expect their citizens to think. "A lucid starting-point for a debate on civic responsibility, diversity, and democracy, Pavloff's story deserves to become a classroom classic. —Review of Contemporary Fiction Beautifully illustrated with brown-and-white graphics, this book also includes the original French text, Matin Brun. Franck Pavloff is a psychologist and a specialist in children's rights worldwide. He is a poet and author of many novels for adults and young readers and lives in Grenoble, France. Copublished with The O'Brien Press, Dublin For more information contact our publicity manager, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu

February 2005 32 pp. 5 x 7 3/4 7 illus., Bilingual Edition: English and French ISBN 0-299-20074-4 Paper $5.95 t The Wisconsin edition of this international bestseller is for sale only in the United States, its territories and dependencies, Canada, and the Philippines. To order, you can accumulate titles in the Shopping Cart by clicking on the bulleted lines below. You can submit your order electronically, paying for it with MasterCard or Visa. Click here for further explanation of shopping cart feature. Never ordered from us before? Read this first.

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