To keep their group alive, the women offer a service which is not provided by the wives anymore: non-sexual companionship. But some women just don’t want to comply with the assigned role and a kind of secret underground community has been formed known as the Panah. This is the single task for them and there is no alternative to functioning as a kind of human breeder. Thus, in Green City, women are assigned several husbands and closely monitored to keep the number of children born as high as possible. Even though men and women get infected equally, it is only deadly for the later with the consequence that the number of female citizens has drastically been diminished. Before She Sleeps takes the patriarchal practices of female seclusion and veiling, gender selection, and control over women’s bodies, amplifying and distorting them in a truly terrifying way to imagine a world of post-religious authoritarianism.Ī virus has seriously affected human population. This dystopian novel from one of Pakistan’s most talented writers is a modern-day parable, The Handmaid’s Tale for repressed women in Muslim countries everywhere. As it turns out, not even the most influential men can shield them from discovery and the dangers of ruthless punishment.
Secretly protected by the highest echelons of power, they emerge only at night to provide the rich and elite of Green City a type of commodity no one can buy: intimacy without sex. Yet there are some who resist, women who live in an underground collective and refuse to be part of the system.
The government uses terror and technology to control its people, and now females must take multiple husbands to have children as quickly as possible. In modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of Southwest Asia, gender selection, war, and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. “A haunting dystopian thriller” from the acclaimed author of A Season for Martyrs- “Fans of The Handmaid’s Tale won’t want to miss this one” ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).
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