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Core of the Sun
Johanna Sinisalo
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Belletristik / Gegenwartsliteratur (ab 1945)
Beschreibung
The Finnish author of Troll: A Love Story delivers a work of ';scathing satire... that sits somewhere between Margaret Atwood and Kurt Vonnegut' (NPR). The Core of the Sun further cements Finlandia Awardwinning author Johanna Sinisalo's reputation as a master of literary speculative fiction and of her country's unique take on it, dubbed ';Finnish weird.' In an alternative historical present, The Eusistocratic Republic of Finland has bred a new human sub-species of receptive, submissive women, called eloi, for sex and procreation, while intelligent, independent women are relegated to menial labor and sterilized so that they do not carry on their ';defective' line. Vanna, raised as an eloi but secretly intelligent, needs money to find her sister, who has disappeared. Vanna forms a friendship with a man named Jare, and they become involved in buying and selling a stimulant known to the Health Authority to be extremely dangerous: chili peppers. Then Jare comes across a strange religious cult in possession of the Core of the Sun, a chili so hot that it is rumored to cause hallucinationsa temptation so enticing that it just might divert the addicted Vanna from her quest... ';A chilling tale reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale... A fascinating story centered on gender politics.' The Washington Post
