I really liked the twist but other than that not much has stuck with me three weeks after finishing this book. It’s a bleak dystopian where essentially illness has been eradicated from society and people are put together with optimal genes for reproducing. Brave New World-esque, with a bit of 1984 since if you deviate from ‘The Method’ you’re seen as a heretic. It’s a bit dull, the language (or translation?) quite dry and uninspired. It seems this is a book studied at school for lots of Germans, and I can see the merit in discussing it with a group! Overall, didn’t make me particularly excited to pick up more of Zeh’s work.