Аннотация
Fleeing an empty future in the Nekropolis, twenty-one-year-old Hariba has agreed to have herself "e;jessed,"e; the technobiological process that will render her subservient to whomever has purchased her service. Indentured in the house of a wealthy merchant, she encounters many wondrous things. Yet nothing there is as remarkable and disturbing to her as the harni, Akhmim. A perfect replica of a man, this intelligent, machine-bred creature unsettles Hariba with its beauty, its naive, inappropriate tenderness . . . and with prying, unanswerable questions, like "e;Why are you sad?"e; And slowly, revulsion metamorphoses into acceptance, and then into something much more. But these outlaw emotions defy the strict edicts of God and Man -- feelings that must never be explored, since no master would tolerate them. And the "e;jessed"e; defy their master's will at the risk of sickness, pain, imprisonment . . . and death.
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