Afterland

TitleAfterland
Year for Search2020
AuthorsBeukes, Lauren [Ann](b. 1976)
Pagination411 pp
Date Published2020
PublisherMulholland Books
Place PublishedNew York
ISBN Number978-0-316-26783-0
KeywordsFemale 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.

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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.