Ergebnis für "Silence" in Dystopien

Hadrian Marlowe, privileged first son of a Duke, was destined for greatness, and he has become a legend. The Sun-Slayer. The Breaker of Sieges. The Crusher of Civilisations. His is a story which defined the course of worlds. This novel is not that story - not the only laid out in the history books, charting the 300 years of his life. Rather this is Hadrian's story, told in his own worlds.

2095. Dans un monde anesthésié par les épidémies, les femmes, devenues rares et donc précieuses, gouvernent désormais l'ensemble des cités survivantes. Le système a été entièrement réinventé : qu'il s'agisse de votre catégorie sociale, de votre mariage, ou même de votre prénom, tout est imposé.

'A soaring coming-of-age novel.' - THE OBSERVER 'Completely fierce, unmistakably feminist, and subversively funny. When Women Were Dragons brings the heat to misogyny with glorious imagination and talon-sharp prose.' - Bonnie Garmus, LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY In a world where girls and women are...

Power’s gone. Rules are gone. Mercy is gone. Stephanie thought she’d outrun her survivalist roots forever. A mom who built a life of normalcy for her twins, she buried every knot-tying, fire-starting, threat-spotting lesson her father forced on her. Then the grid collapsed. As cities turn into killing fields and armed packs hunt the unprepared, those buried lessons claw their way back. To keep her girls breathing, she must become the predator she once feared most.

AT FIRST, THE PANDEMICS DECIMATED THE OLD. Written in 2015, before the coronavirus outbreak, Gray Silence is a dystopian novel in which seniors' end-of-life care is now in the hands of the State. An ideal lifestyle in an idyllic setting... But the reality is quite different as the State discreetly gets rid of the most vulnerable. Alexandre Geoffroy is a gifted and charismatic lawyer who has everything going for him: he's great with women, drives a Jaguar, and frequents the high circles of power. He is also the mastermind behind the Healthy Villages for Seniors, facilities that offer to take care of elderly relatives with dignity.

Navigating new challenges over decades, an unfailingly hopeful Ephraim tells us an ode to resourcefulness and problem-solving, an environmental cautionary tale, a societal critic, an exploration of extremism, an action-packed adventure and mainly, the most poignant love story.

Set in a thinly disguised sixteenth-century England, Megan Campisi's The Sin Eater is a wonderfully rich story of treason and treachery; of women, of power, and the strange freedom that comes from being an outcast – because, sometimes, being a nobody sometimes counts for everything . . . 'A...