The Carhullan Army

'The Lake District's answer to The Handmaid's Tale.' Guardian

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Beschreibung

<p><b>'The Lake District's answer to The Handmaid's Tale.' <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>England is in a state of environmental and economic crisis. Under the repressive regime of The Authority, citizens have been herded into urban centres, and all women of child-bearing age fitted with contraceptive devices. A woman known as 'Sister' leaves her oppressive marriage to join an isolated group of women in a remote northern farm at Carhullan, where she intends to become a rebel fighter. But can she follow their notion of freedom and what it means to fight for it?<br><br>'At the vanguard of the new wave of futuristic dystopian literature . . . an accomplished, provocative novel.' <i>Literary Review</i><br><br>'Hall's fierce and shocking writing captures the cruel beauty of Cumbria.' <i>Telegraph</i><br><br>'A dystopian vision of a disturbingly near future in which the floods have risen and the oil has run out . . . entirely modern and brutally fresh.' <i>Independent</i></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780571315628

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 131 x 18 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Verlag / Hersteller

Faber & Faber