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Before She Sleeps - Hardcover, by Shah Bina - Good
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Publisher
Delphinium Books, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1883285763
ISBN-13
9781883285760
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240495808
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Book Title
Before She Sleeps
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Dystopian, Alternative History
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
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12 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
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Reviews
Praise for A Season for Martyrs: "Riveting and articulate, A Season for Martyrs by Pakistani journalist Bina Shah is the author's debut novel for an American readership and clearly denotes her ability to deftly craft and complex story of suspenseful twists and unexpected turns that holds the reader's total attention from beginning to end. Very highly recommended for personal reading lists.", An overdue enlargement of the cultural conversation that [ The Handmaid's Tale ] continues to provoke., The most subtly disturbing of dystopias, richly textured and appallingly intimate, Before She Sleeps has hints of Huxley and Atwood but is uniquely Bina Shah., The 21st century answer to The Handmaid's Tale ... Gripping, smart and dystopian in the most terrifying way, which is to say that it seems so very possible. Green City is the glossy, AI-powered, deeply misogynistic technocracy of our nightmares, which the free yet confined women of the Panah desperately struggle to defy., Charged and thrilling...exquisite...Shah develops her multiple characters beautifully...a thoughtful novel that will stick with me for a very long time., Shah writes with grace and fluency, and it is clear from the start that her book reflects a maturity in style and skill at plot-management that are the hallmarks of the seasoned writer. Shah writes about her native soil as only an insider can. What gives the novel additional warmth and luster is the manner in which she portrays legendary Sindhi heroes....Unlike some female writers, Shah demonstrates skill at authentically depicting a staggering variety of male characters. The ability to transfer masculinity to paper is a rare trait... A Season for Martyrs undoubtedly deserves much praise and will not disappoint readers., Shah's novel is both explicitly connected to Atwood's marvel [ The Handmaid's Tale ] and working to expand it by imagining what a secular, Middle Eastern Gilead might look like... One of the best books of the second half of 2018., A timely novel of women's resistance and determination. By setting her book in a future Middle East and South Asia, Bina Shah has given us a welcome addition to the feminist dystopian thriller that expands the genre beyond a white-centric gaze. Women's stories and women's voices--in all our diversity--are important and Bina Shah's thriller is a necessary reminder., "Female-centered #Dystopia from #Pakistan: Before She Sleeps, Bina Shah. Fascinating new angle on 'emotional work'!" -- Margaret Atwood on Twitter "A haunting, dystopian thriller... Fans of The Handmaid's Tale won't want to miss this one." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "An overdue enlargement of the cultural conversation that [The Handmaid's Tale] continues to provoke." -- Kirkus Reviews "Charged and thrilling...exquisite...Shah develops her multiple characters beautifully...a thoughtful novel that will stick with me for a very long time." -- Los Angeles Times "The most subtly disturbing of dystopias, richly textured and appallingly intimate, Before She Sleeps has hints of Huxley and Atwood but is uniquely Bina Shah." -- Nick Harkaway, author of Gnomon and The Gone-Away World "The 21st century answer to The Handmaid's Tale... Gripping, smart and dystopian in the most terrifying way, which is to say that it seems so very possible. Green City is the glossy, AI-powered, deeply misogynistic technocracy of our nightmares, which the free yet confined women of the Panah desperately struggle to defy." -- Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood "A timely novel of women's resistance and determination. By setting her book in a future Middle East and South Asia, Bina Shah has given us a welcome addition to the feminist dystopian thriller that expands the genre beyond a white-centric gaze. Women's stories and women's voices--in all our diversity--are important and Bina Shah's thriller is a necessary reminder." -- Mona Eltahawy, author of Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution "Shah's novel is both explicitly connected to Atwood's marvel [ The Handmaid's Tale ] and working to expand it by imagining what a secular, Middle Eastern Gilead might look like... One of the best books of the second half of 2018." -- The Millions "Provocative." -- Syfy.com, One of the Best Books of the Summer " Before She Sleeps stands on its own as a novel that will have readers contemplating rebellion and revolt, sex and power, and the many ways women's bodies are sacrificed for the good of society." -- Booklist, Before She Sleeps stands on its own as a novel that will have readers contemplating rebellion and revolt, sex and power, and the many ways women's bodies are sacrificed for the good of society., Good reading, urgently and cleanly told, for those interested in world events, as well as issues of identity and place in community., "Charged and thrilling, exquisite, Shah develops her multiple characters beautifully, a thoughtful novel that will stick with me for a very long time." --Los Angeles Times "The most subtly disturbing of dystopias, richly textured and appallingly intimate, Before She Sleeps has hints of Huxley and Atwood but is uniquely Bina Shah." --Nick Harkaway, author of Gnomon and The Gone-Away World "The 21st century answer to The Handmaid's Tale . Gripping, smart and dystopian in the most terrifying way, which is to say that it seems so very possible. Green City is the glossy, AI-powered, deeply misogynistic technocracy of our nightmares, which the free yet confined women of the Panah desperately struggle to defy." --Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood "A timely novel of women's resistance and determination. By setting her book in a future Middle East and South Asia, Bina Shah has given us a welcome addition to the feminist dystopian thriller that expands the genre beyond a white-centric gaze. Women's stories and women's voices--in all our diversity--are important and Bina Shah's thriller is a necessary reminder." --Mona Eltahawy, author of Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution "Shah's novel is both explicitly connected to Atwood's marvel The Handmaid's Tale and working to expand it by imagining what a secular, Middle Eastern Gilead might look like... One of the best books of the second half of 2018." --The Millions "Provocative." --Syfy.com, "One of the Best Books of the Summer" " Before She Sleeps stands on its own as a novel that will have readers contemplating rebellion and revolt, sex and power, and the many ways women's bodies are sacrificed for the good of society." --Booklist
Synopsis
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., 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.
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