Eleven Percent - Maren Uthaug

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Résumé :
Maren Uthaug...

Biographie:
people now live in round communities. But if you prefer the slum, that's okay too. Religion has survived, sort of: women priestesses speak in tongues, inspired by snake venom, as apples are passed around to the congregation. But all social engineering has its costs...

Four different lives intersect: Medea, a tiny, long-haired witch and snake whisperer...

Sommaire:

An inverse The Handmaid's Tale that asks: What if women took over the world?

A pretty wild book!-Margaret E. Atwood, tweet

Emotionally enthralling and intellectually stimulating. -Booklist

It is the New Time, a time not so different from our own except that the men are gone. All but eleven percent of them, that is, the minimum required to avoid inbreeding. But they are safely under lock and key in spa centers for women's pleasure (trained by amazons to fulfill all desires) and procreation. A few women protest that the males should be treated better - more space, better food, but all agree that testosterone cannot be allowed to roam free. The old patriarchal cities are crumbling, becoming overgrown...