Bibliograph

Before she sleeps, a novel, Bina Shah

Type

Label

Before she sleeps, a novel, Bina Shah

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Before she sleeps

Oclc number

296210

Responsibility statement

Bina Shah

Sub title

a novel

Summary

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

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