✍ Steven Heighton
📂 Fiction
📅 2005;2010
🏛 Knopf Canada;Vintage Canada
🌐 English
⚖ 392 KB
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✦ LIBER ✦
Afterland
✍ Scribed by Lauren Beukes
- Publisher
- Mulholland Books / Little Brown & Company
- Year
- 2020
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 266 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
Children of Men meets The Handmaid's Tale in this "bowstring-taut, visceral, and incredibly timely" thriller about how far a mother will go to protect her son from a hostile world transformed by the absence of men (Cory Doctorow).
Most of the men are dead. Three years after the pandemic known as The Manfall, governments still hold and life continues -- but a world run by women isn't always a better place.
Twelve-year-old Miles is one of the last boys alive, and his mother, Cole, will protect him at all costs. On the run after a horrific act of violence-and pursued by Cole's own ruthless sister, Billie -- all Cole wants is to raise her kid somewhere he won't be preyed on as a reproductive resource or a sex object or a stand-in son. Someplace like home.
To get there, Cole and Miles must journey across a changed America in disguise as mother and daughter. From a military base in Seattle to a luxury bunker, from an anarchist commune in...
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« Comment ai-je réussi à m’échapper de Heidelberg pour atterrir finalement à Munich, ça reste pour moi une énigme. J’ai dû prendre un train, mais ce voyage est effacé de mon cerveau, plus là, c’est tout. » Traversée de l’Allemagne des années 1990, de fête en gueule de bois et du nord au sud, Faserl