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A carregar... The Carhullan Army (edição 2007)por Sarah Hall
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Being a feminist dystopia in which a woman flees a London administered by a cruel and misogynistic dictatorship to seek out a colony of resisters out in the tules. This was far too much of a slow burner for me; there is very little (if any) action; rather, the protagonist narrator muses on the collapse of her marriage and her husband's reluctant collaboration with the government. The only other character is a nondescript driver who picks her up as a hitchhiker and who talks a great deal about uninteresting matters. Did the author run out of steam at the end there? Just when plot starting picking up, suddenly the files were "corrupted" and could only be partially read. An interesting premise, though the execution of the story did not jive with me. The author seemed to try and make this similar to The Handmaid's Tale, with the story told in epistolary fashion as testimony of the nameless main character, which just led for me to make comparisons to Atwood throughout. I wish there had been more to flesh it out. As it was, it felt incomplete. A beautifully crafted novel. Set in the north of England in the Lake District, this is familiar territory but not familiar times. England is in disarray and the people of the cities are oppressed and abused. Carhullan, high on the fells is the opposite. This community of women seems idyllic. There is such darkness in this book, I found it unsettling and at first read it in short sections. There were parts that were almost unbearable to read and others that were lyrical. It is about our fight for freedom and about suffering and how that fuels our actions.
The Carhullan Army/Daughters of the North is worth reading for its gorgeous prose and layered depictions of the relationships among the women in a commune. But as a future dystopian narrative, it presents a few really terrifying ideas — the Coil chief among them — and then falls a bit flat.
In her stunning novel, Hall imagines a new dystopia set in the not-too-distant future. England is in a state of environmental crisis and economic collapse. There has been a census, and all citizens have been herded into urban centers. Reproduction has become a lottery, with contraceptive coils fitted to every female of childbearing age. A girl who will become known only as Sister escapes the confines of her repressive marriage to find an isolated group of women living as un-officials in Carhullan, a remote northern farm, where she must find out whether she has it in herself to become a rebel fighter. Provocative and timely, Daughters of the North poses questions about the lengths women will go to resist their oppressors, and under what circumstances might an ordinary person become a terrorist. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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If you're just wanting a taste of this kind of dystopia, I would point you to Octavia Butler's "Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents". If you really want to sink your teeth in the subject, you should probably read this one at some point, because it does provide some unique food for thought on the matter. ( )