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The First Century After Beatrice by Amin Maalouf
3.0
โWhen One is powerless against Leprosy, one attacks the leper, one builds walls to quarantine him.
Century-old Wisdom, Century old-Folly.โ
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A French entomologist along with his Journalist partner and a mentor discover growing gender-disparity and set about bringing the attention of the World to this new โSuper drugโ that is being used for sterilizing males permanently against producing any female offspring and therefore satisfying the century old love of having male heirs.
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Initially the rich โNorthโ sees the use of this drug as a method of population-control for the poor โSouthโ, not realizing โthat salvation must be for the whole planet or not at allโ.
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The general population faces destruction and chaos when females become increasingly rare and the men erupt in anger causing violence at not being given the chance to have a family.
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A very well-written & easy to read dystopian piece but very close to the reality we live in.
It deals with the themes of not only gender-bias but also racism, migration and social inequality among others.
The parallels among the affluent North & poor South with our own World where the developed Countries think themselves independent of the issues faced by the developing Countries is surreal.
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However, the ending felt rushed and unfinished.
Also, being a book about the importance of females it lacked a strong female presence and failed to show their take on the crises.
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Extra points for not letting me lose interest ๐
Century-old Wisdom, Century old-Folly.โ
๐
A French entomologist along with his Journalist partner and a mentor discover growing gender-disparity and set about bringing the attention of the World to this new โSuper drugโ that is being used for sterilizing males permanently against producing any female offspring and therefore satisfying the century old love of having male heirs.
๐
Initially the rich โNorthโ sees the use of this drug as a method of population-control for the poor โSouthโ, not realizing โthat salvation must be for the whole planet or not at allโ.
๐
The general population faces destruction and chaos when females become increasingly rare and the men erupt in anger causing violence at not being given the chance to have a family.
๐
.
A very well-written & easy to read dystopian piece but very close to the reality we live in.
It deals with the themes of not only gender-bias but also racism, migration and social inequality among others.
The parallels among the affluent North & poor South with our own World where the developed Countries think themselves independent of the issues faced by the developing Countries is surreal.
๐
However, the ending felt rushed and unfinished.
Also, being a book about the importance of females it lacked a strong female presence and failed to show their take on the crises.
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Extra points for not letting me lose interest ๐