Synopsis
Une cité perdue, aux abords interdits, protégée par un terrible secret... Sous ses murs se cache une étrange communauté d'enfants aux corps difformes.
Des monstres ? Des mutants peut-être...
Rites, lois et légendes règnent sur cet univers dont les maîtres, les Pères, demeurent invisibles. Frère Alice veille sur les enfants qui grandissent sans jamais tenter de percer le mystère de leur origine. Une chose pourtant intrigue le jeune Bartholomew : où vont les oiseaux lorsqu'ils quittent le "Lieu" ?
La survie de la ville soudain menacée par les nouvelles visées des Pères, frère Alice décide de tout révéler aux enfants et... retire son troisième oeil !
Mais la vérité enfin connue, sauront-ils rester unis pour sauver le "Lieu" ?
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From the Back Cover
Batholomew, the limbless one, who records the life of his brethren...Lucas, the bodiless, who give his brethren names...Brother Alice, who delivers the words of the Fathers to the children of Conscience Place. To the outside world, they are monsters. To themselves, they are simply the People. America has cast them out of sight, out of mind. But you will never forget them.
Review
"Conscience Place describes the indescribable...moving, devastating and realized to its fullest powers--in this book Thompson has achieved a fictional feat."--Publishers Weekly
"A beautifully told story...a thought-provoking gem."--Library Journal
"Powerful...touching. The potent premise is rendered with restraint and imagination."
--Kirkus Reviews
"Leaves no doubt that the atomic age has bred a monster far more evil and lasting than than did Shelley's lonely Frankenstein." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Thompson has handled the subject of nuclear devastation adroitly, and raised and answered some troublesome questions about war and other human shortcomings....Conscience Place will make you think." --Seattle Times
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