The Unconquered

A fiercely intelligent young girl rejects the establishment by burying her head in books, while her parents maintain a cocoon of domesticity around her. When the well-oiled machine of daily life is disrupted by a people's revolution and the arrival of a mercenary soldier in the family home, the conflict between the regime and the girl threatens to destroy everything her parents have worked to achieve.
Torben Bett's poetic language, dark humor and provocative ideas build a fast-moving story, in which the accepted values of civilization are put under extreme, and perhaps even fatal, pressure.