![]() Bina Shah reimagines our contemporary reality in this modern day parable, deeply assessing the patriarchal practices that govern female oppression today and recasting them to create a terrifying world of post-religious authoritarianism. ![]() The government uses terror and technological surveillance to control its people, and women must take multiple husbands to have children as quickly as possible. In the fictional Green City, the capital of South West Asia, gender selection, war and a virus outbreak have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. ![]() ![]() In her new novel, Before She Sleeps, highly acclaimed Pakistani author Bina Shah, uses the scenario of a dystopian, nuclear war wrecked future, to explore deeply relevant contemporary issues. ![]()
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