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The Core of the Sun

✍ Scribed by Johanna Sinisalo;Lola Rogers (transl)

Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Year: 2015
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 217 KB
Edition: (US)
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0802190235

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✦ Synopsis

From the author of the Finlandia Award-winning novel Troll: A Love Story , The Core of the Sun further cements Johanna Sinisalo's reputation as a master of literary speculative fiction and of her country's unique take on it, dubbed "Finnish weird." Set in an alternative historical present, in a "eusistocracy"--an extreme welfare state--that holds public health and social stability above all else, it follows a young woman whose growing addiction to illegal chili peppers leads her on an adventure into a world where love, sex, and free will are all controlled by the state.
The Eusistocratic Republic of Finland has bred a new human sub-species of receptive, submissive women, called eloi , for sex and procreation, while intelligent, independent women are relegated to menial labor and sterilized so that they do not carry on their "defective" line. Vanna, raised as an eloi but secretly intelligent, needs money to help her doll-like sister, who...

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