A01=Maren Uthaug
Author_Maren Uthaug
Category=FM
Dystopia
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Female protagonists
Feminism
Feminist literature
Gender equality
High Concept
Matriarchal society
Menstruation
Multiple POV
Patriarchal society
Priestess
Procreation
Self-pleasure
Sex
Speculative fiction
Utopia
Witches
Product details
- ISBN 9781250329646
- Weight: 381g
- Dimensions: 150 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 19 May 2025
- Publisher: St Martin's Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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” centres for women’s pleasure (trained by amazons to fulfil 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; 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; Wicca, a young priestess who excelled at the “self-pleasuring” curriculum in school and has lost her pregnant lover; Eva, a doctor working in a spa centre, and Silence, who lives in an almost abandoned convent. Each will discover the cracks in this women's paradise.
Maren Uthaug is an award-winning author of four novels, and has a daily cartoon strip in Denmark's largest newspaper. Her critically acclaimed second novel Where There are Birds was awarded the Danish Broadcasting Corporation's Novel of the Year Award in 2018, and her third novel A Happy Ending received the Readers' Choice Award. Born in the town of Uthaug, Norway, she lives in Copenhagen.
