PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Bina Shah is a writer of English fiction and a journalist living in Karachi, Pakistan. She is the author of four novels and two collections of short stories, including Slum Child, which was a best seller in Italy. A regular contributor to the International New York Times, she is a provocative and bold commentator for the international press on Pakistan's society, culture, and women's rights. Her most recent novel, A Season for Martyrs, originally published by Delphinium in 2014, was published in France and India in 2016. She is a graduate of Wellesley College and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and an alum of the International Writers Program at the University of Iowa.
Female-centered #Dystopia from #Pakistan: Before She Sleeps, Bina Shah. Fascinating new angle on 'emotional work'! -- Margaret Atwood on Twitter A haunting, dystopian thriller... Fans of The Handmaid's Tale won't want to miss this one. -- Publishers Weekly, starred review An overdue enlargement of the cultural conversation that [The Handmaid's Tale] continues to provoke. -- Kirkus Reviews Charged and thrilling...exquisite...Shah develops her multiple characters beautifully...a thoughtful novel that will stick with me for a very long time. -- Los Angeles Times The most subtly disturbing of dystopias, richly textured and appallingly intimate, Before She Sleeps has hints of Huxley and Atwood but is uniquely Bina Shah. -- Nick Harkaway, author of Gnomon and The Gone-Away World Gripping, smart and dystopian in the most terrifying way, which is to say that it seems so very possible. Green City is the glossy, AI-powered, deeply misogynistic technocracy of our nightmares, which the free yet confined women of the Panah desperately struggle to defy. -- Molly Crabapple, author of Drawing Blood A timely novel of women's resistance and determination. ... Bina Shah has given us a welcome addition to the feminist dystopian thriller that expands the genre beyond a white-centric gaze. Women's stories and women's voices--in all our diversity--are important and Bina Shah's thriller is a necessary reminder. -- Mona Eltahawy, author of Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution Shah's novel is both explicitly connected to Atwood's marvel [The Handmaid's Tale] and working to expand it by imagining what a secular, Middle Eastern Gilead might look like... One of the best books of the second half of 2018. -- The Millions Provocative. -- Syfy.com, One of the Best Books of the Summer Before She Sleeps stands on its own as a novel that will have readers contemplating rebellion and revolt, sex and power, and the many ways women's bodies are sacrificed for the good of society. -- Booklist
