Hall The Carhullan Army

'The Lake District's answer to The Handmaid's Tale.' Guardian
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ISBN: 978-0-571-26762-0
Verlag: Faber & Faber
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 229 Seiten

'The Lake District's answer to The Handmaid's Tale.' Guardian 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? 'At the vanguard of the new wave of futuristic dystopian literature . . . an accomplished, provocative novel.' Literary Review 'Hall's fierce and shocking writing captures the cruel beauty of Cumbria.' Telegraph '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.' Independent

Hailed as a 'writer of show-stopping genius' and a two-time Man Booker Prize nominee, Sarah Hall is the award-winning author of six novels and three short-story collections. Notably, she is the only author to win the prestigious BBC National Short Story Award twice -first in 2013 with 'Mrs Fox' and again in 2020 with 'The Grotesques'.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hall, Sarah