Beschrijving
Titel en schrijver |
The children of men, P.D. James |
ISBN nr. |
0-14-017828-7 |
Uitgeverij, drukjaar en drukversie |
Penguin books, 1994, eerste druk |
Paperback of hardcover |
paperback |
Aantal pagina’s |
350 pagina’s |
Taal en categorie |
Engels, thrillers, detectives, horrors |
Korte samenvatting |
In the Children of men no child has been born for over twenty-five years. There won’t be anymore either as infertility has spread like a plague and humankind is at the brink of extinction.
Under the tyrannical rule of Xan Lyppiatt, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young are violent. The Oxford historian and cousin of the Warden, Theo Faron, leads a self-absorbed, solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. But when theo is approached by a group of dissenters, he is faced by agonizing choices and involved in unimaginable horrors, that may change the future of mankind. |
Over de auteur |
In 1920 P.D. James was born in Oxford and educated at Cambride High School. She worked from 1949 to 1968 in the National
Health Service as an administrator, and with the experience she gaine it helped her with the background for Shroud for a nightingale, The Black Tower and a Mind to murder. She entered the home office as principal in 1968, working first in the Police Department concerned with the forensic science service and later in the Criminal Policy Department. James retired in 1979. She is a Royal Society of Literature and a Royal Society of Arts, and has Honorary degrees from the universities of Buckingham, London, Hertfordshire and Glasgow. James won a couple of awards including the Silver Dagger Award and the Diamond Dagger Award, she also was awarded with the Deo Gloria Award. |
Recensies |
Independent- ‘Spare and disturbing…more moving than any of her more famous crime novels’
Observer- ‘It has extraordinary power and visionary passion’
The New Yorks Times -‘extraordinary… P.D. James stretches her considerable talents in this daring novel’. |
Beschadigingen |
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