![]() It follows from a well-established line of writing on feminist dystopias authored by women writers in which dystopic conditions centre on women’s fertility (or lack of it), starting with Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale in 1985, P.D. ![]() Bina Shah’s Before She Sleeps is no exception. The narrative of Before She Sleeps unfolds on the canvas of this dystopian scenario.ĭystopian fiction has a long pedigree of depicting authoritarian states (Huxley’s Brave New World, Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, to name a few). The decimated population stands at risk of being extinguished unless birth rates can be raised. A rare strain of the human papillomavirus has morphed into a rapidly spreading cervical cancer epidemic, with dire consequences for fertility. In the novel, a long-term consequence of nuclear fallout is its impact on human reproduction. Green City is a technologically state-of-the-art place, which has been resurrected from the ruins of nuclear devastation brought about by a war. ![]() ![]() It is the capital of a federally constituted state called South West Asia. The locale is an imaginary Middle Eastern city named Green City (which the author has loosely modelled on Muscat). Bina Shah’s sixth novel, Before She Sleeps, is a post-apocalyptic thriller. ![]()
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