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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Welcome to Orphancorp is a chilling read. It’s a semi-futuristic dystopia in which the central character Mirii negotiates slavery in a brutal system designed to achieve compliant child workers. These are the opening lines: I twist my hand at a weird angle to get to the itch on my wrist below the shackle. I mean, they call them ‘the Consequences of movement violations’, but shackles is what they are. When I forget to refer to them as such I get ‘the Consequences of speech violations’, which is pretty much just a gag. No one cares what I call that because everything sounds the same with a mouthful of rubber, doesn’t it? But as you can tell even from these brief lines, Orphancorp has failed to suppress Mirii’s personality and she has an engaging recklessness which serves her well. Yes, it is risky to break the rules when, at almost eighteen years of age, she is so close to release but she has an irrepressible spirit. It is that spirit that makes this otherwise grim novella bearable to read. Compliance at an Orphancorp facility is achieved with punishments that escalate in severity to include solitary confinement with bread and water, and vividly depicted physical torture. But – beyond the sardonically named Aunties and Uncles who administer the institution – someone in charge has decided that the littlest kids – babies to four year olds – need human love and affection if they are to mature into usable workers. So the older orphans are assigned as nannies to care for them. But after that, physical contact consists only of punishment until the kids take matters into their own hands and have secret cuddle sessions. But they are obviously not so secret because it’s part of the grand master plan that the emerging sexuality of the adolescents will produce more babies in due course… To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2018/09/07/welcome-to-orphancorp-by-marlee-jane-ward-bo... sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Winner of the 2015 Seizure Viva La Novella Prize Winner of the 2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction If she can just keep outta trouble, Mirii Mahoney is going to taste freedom for the first time, but she's fighting against the system, against the other kids, and against herself. A heartfelt, brutal, funny, and diverse story about when corporate interests overwhelm human rights, and what happens to children when they bloom in the darkest of places. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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So basically, this is horrible, with a dash of hope, and it's so well delivered. ( )