The Fortress
β Scribed by Rosenbaum, Benjamin
- Publisher
- Erewhon Books
- Year
- 2021
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 167 KB
- Edition
- 8
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1645660060
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
βStunning, speculative novel, equal parts entertaining and moving, and one of the first books Iβve encountered with truly autonomous female characters.β Angela Meyer, author and editor
Β Jonathon Bridge has a corner office in a top-tier law firm, tailored suits and an impeccable pedigree. He has a fascinating wife, Adalia, a child on the way, and a string of pretty young interns as lovers on the side. Heβs a man whoβs going places. His world is our world: the same chaos and sprawl, haves and have-nots, men and women, skyscrapers and billboards. But it also exists alongside a vast, self-sustaining city-state called The Fortress where the indigenous inhabitantsβthe Vaik, a society run and populated exclusively by womenβlive in isolation.
Β When Adalia discovers his indiscretions and the ugly sexual violence pervading his firm, she agrees to continue their fractured marriage only on the condition that Jonathan...
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