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The Children of Men

Englisch

Warner Books

1994

352

0446364622

9780446364621

Taschenbuch

Erstauflage

Like P. D. James's bestselling stories of detections, The Children of Men contains all the trademark elements that have made her a world-class novelist: brilliant characters, surprising reversals, rich landscapes, and deep shadows of menace and murder. But now, in a radical departure, this author offers us an extraordinary new novel unlike any of her previous works...except in its wholly familiar, unfailingly tense, tremendously satisfying suspense.

It begins in England, in 2021, in a world where all human males have become sterile and no child can ever be born again. The final generation has turned twenty-five, and civilisation is giving way to strange faiths and cruelties, mass suicides, and despair. Theodore Faron, Oxford historian and cousin to the omnipotent Warden of England, a dictator of great subtlety and total power, has nearly resigned himself to apathy and a future without a future. Then he meets Julian, a bright attractive woman who wants Theo to join her circle of unlikely revolutionaries, a move that may shatter his shell of passivity...and maybe, just maybe, hold the key to survival for the race.