An Excess Male: A Novel

✍ Scribed by King, Maggie Shen

• Book ID: 100148804
• Publisher: HarperCollins; Harper Voyager
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 266 KB
• Edition: 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0062662554

✦ Synopsis

From debut author Maggie Shen King, An Excess Male is the chilling dystopian tale of politics, inequality, marriage, love, and rebellion, set in a near-future China, that further explores the themes of the classic The Handmaid's Tale and****When She Woke.

Under the One Child Policy, everyone plotted to have a son.

Now 40 million of them can't find wives.

China's One Child Policy and its cultural preference for male heirs have created a society overrun by 40 million unmarriageable men. By the year 2030, more than twenty-five percent of men in their late thirties will not have a family of their own. An Excess Male is one such leftover man's quest for love and family under a State that seeks to glorify its past mistakes and impose order through authoritatian measures, reinvigorated Communist ideals, and social engineering.

Wei-guo holds fast to the belief that as long as he...