num_pages: 250
description: In modern beautiful Green City the capital of South West Asia gender selection war and disease have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. The government uses terror and technology to control its people and women must take multiple husbands to have children as quickly as possible. Yet there are women who resist women who live in an underground collective and refuse to be part of the system. Secretly protected by the highest echelons of power they emerge only at night to provide to the rich and elite of Green City a type of commodity that nobody can intimacy without sex. As it turns out not even the most influential men can shield them from discovery and the dangers of ruthless punishment. This dystopian novel from one of Pakistans most talented writers is a modern-day parable The Handmaids Tale about womens lives in repressive Muslim countries everywhere. It takes the patriarchal practices of female seclusion and veiling gender selection and control over womens bodies amplifies and distorts them in a truly terrifying way to imagine a world of post-religious authoritarianism.
language: English
title: Before She Sleeps
publisher: Delphinium