Afterland
Title | Afterland |
Year for Search | 2020 |
Authors | Beukes, Lauren [Ann](b. 1976) |
Pagination | 411 pp |
Date Published | 2020 |
Publisher | Mulholland Books |
Place Published | New York |
ISBN Number | 978-0-316-26783-0 |
Keywords | Female author, South African author |
Annotation | The novel is set in a future in which very few males are born and a mother and her young son, disguised as her daughter, travel across America, fleeing all those who would use him for their own purposes. |
Additional Publishers | An excerpt was published in The Johannesburg Review of Books 4.4 (April 2020). [The JRB Daily] [Exclusive] ‘A notice at the cash register with a sad-face emoji reads, “Sorry! Hand Sanitizer Sold Out!”’—Read an excerpt from Lauren Beukes’s prescient new novel Afterland – The Johannesburg Review of Books. |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Author Note | South African female author (b. 1976) |
Full Text | 2020 Beukes, Lauren [Ann] (b. 1976). Afterland. New York: Mulholland Books. An excerpt was published in The Johannesburg Review of Books 4.4 (April 2020). [The JRB Daily] [Exclusive] ‘A notice at the cash register with a sad-face emoji reads, “Sorry! Hand Sanitizer Sold Out!”’—Read an excerpt from Lauren Beukes’s prescient new novel Afterland – The Johannesburg Review of Books. 411 pp. PSt The novel is set in a future in which very few males are born and a mother and her young son, disguised as her daughter, travel across America, fleeing all those who would use him for their own purposes. South African female author. |