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Cargando... Womb City (edición 2024)por Tlotlo Tsamaase (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A very tough one to unpick. At the times this is one of the most intelligent and brutally brilliant cyberpunk dystopia novels I've come across. It mixes a lot of high concept technologies of body hopping, soul transferrence, thought monitoring and future crime prevention in a very intelligent way. And it ties all that in with Botswanan culture and mythology surounding reincarnation of the spirit. It's all extremely clever and for the most part it pulls it off spectacularly if you are prepared to slowly absorb the world building Tlotlo painstaking spends time pieceing together. It doesn't stop there though, it uses all of these to highlight the oppression of women and minorities in society and the unfairness brought upon them by men. To many it might seem rather heavy handed in its approach, but I actually found the themes had a lot more power than many other stories which focus on them. Through the eyes of Nehah we get to experience that oppression as her daily routines are monitored, her words twisted, her thoughts manipulated and the effect society has had on her lifespans. At other times though, the book becomes somewhat messy and often the consistency in the writing lets the whole thing down. Whole sections of dreamlike sentences which appear to be trying to evoke intense emotional states don't always work and instead confuse the narrative. Plot twists and new ideas are inserted constantly throughout the last quarter of the book to the point it becomes very difficult to keep a firm grasp on everything going on - no sooner did I feel I was on track, than a plot twist sent everything spiralling away again. And whilst many of these cleverly link back to subtle seedings earlier on, some feel random, confusing or just plain contradictory It's a brilliant book - one I will read again to explore it from a new perspective - and Tsamaase's talent to mesh science fiction and spiritual culture so innovatively is something that will make me seek out more of her work. I just wish it didn't try to pack so much in and wasn't such a convoluted story at times to read. I found it very difficult to get through. The writing felt rushed. The plot was very interesting but it didn't feel very fleshed out. The characters all seemed to be very angry and arguing ALL the time which made it had to try and connect to any of them. I read about 75% then skimmed to the end to find out the ending which in itself was wild. I generally enjoy books that have some basis in mythology but there just wasn't enough explanation about really anything that was going on. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid's Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her own body. Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor her every move, Nelah's perfect life is precarious. After a drug-fueled evening culminates in an eerie car accident, Nelah commits a desperate crime and buries the body, daring to hope that she can keep one last secret. The truth claws its way into Nelah's life from the grave. As the ghost of her victim viciously hunts down the people Nelah holds dear, she is thrust into a race against the clock: in order to save any of her remaining loved ones, Nelah must unravel the political conspiracy her victim was on the verge of exposing--or risk losing everyone. Set in a cruel futuristic surveillance state where bodies are a government-issued resource, this harrowing story is a twisty, nail-biting commentary on power, monstrosity, and bodily autonomy. In sickeningly evocative prose, Womb City interrogates how patriarchy pits women against each other as unwitting collaborators in their own oppression. In this devastatingly timely debut novel, acclaimed short fiction writer Tlotlo Tsamaase brings a searing intelligence and Botswana's cultural sensibility to the question: just how far must a woman go to bring the whole system crashing down? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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A good old dystopia with a very interesting twist which takes you on a wild ride through a futuristic Botswana.
A powerful language which lets you feel the anger and the despair as if it is your own.
A story of the power of loosing ones identity but with the beacon of light that not all hope is lost if you start to reclaim that which ones was yours. ( )