From Margaret Atwood with her sinister tale of the handmaid up Stephen King in his Sleeping Beauties made chrysalis in a world apart. Just two examples to shore up a science fiction genre that turns feminism on its head to approach it from a disturbing perspective.
On this occasion, Sandra Newman influences that good-natured notion of the feminine towards a transition of power established by atavistic, even violent demonstrations. The new world is served and the futility of the masculine hovers over as an already recurring idea in this type of story. Even so, it is an interesting novel for a subgenre that is taking off.
August 26, 7:14 AM: Jane Pearson wakes up to a radically different world, one in which all men have disappeared, including her son and husband. While she searches for them without losing hope of bringing them back, a new society arises before her, better, happier and safer than the previous one. Jane will thus face a great dilemma: she will have to decide if she wants to help the men to return or if she prefers to continue living in a new world without them.
Beautiful and haunting, A World Without Men doesn't shy away from the big questions or the uncomfortable answers. Halfway between a thriller and science fiction, brilliantly constructed and with a premise that puts highly topical issues on the table, it is an exploration of impossible sacrifices that asks us what we would be willing to give up to create a better world.
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