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Before She Sleeps

By Bina Shah

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Before She Sleeps

By Bina Shah

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A hyper-realistic dystopian novel set in the future that portrays a society that has arisen from a world decimated by war in which a group of women, greatly outnumbered by men, revolt against being enslaved in multiple marriages. In modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of South West Asia, gender selection, war and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. The government uses terror and technology to control its people, and women must take multiple husbands to have children as quickly as possible. Yet there are women who resist, women who live in an underground collective and refuse to be part of the system. Secretly protected by the highest echelons of power, they emerge only at night, to provide to the rich and elite of Green City a type of commodity that nobody can buy: intimacy without sex. As it turns out, not even the most influential men can shield them from discovery and the dangers of ruthless punishment. This dystopian novel from one of Pakistan’s most talented writers is a modern-day parable, The Handmaid’s Tale about women’s lives in repressive Muslim countries everywhere. It takes the patriarchal practices of female seclusion and veiling, gender selection, and control over women’s bodies, amplifies and distorts them in a truly terrifying way to imagine a world of post-religious authoritarianism.
Product details
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2018-07-19
Publication Date:
2018-07-19
Publisher:
Delphinium Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1883285763
ISBN13:
9781883285760
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
343 g
Height:
146 cm
Width:
218 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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