The Farm: A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Pick - Rilegato

Ramos, Joanne

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ISBN 10: 1526605252 ISBN 13: 9781526605252

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019

Riassunto

Life is a lucrative business, as long as you play by the rules.

Ambitious businesswoman Mae Yu runs Golden Oaks - a luxury retreat transforming the fertility industry. There, women get the very best of everything: organic meals, fitness trainers, daily massages and big money. Provided they dedicate themselves to producing the perfect baby. For someone else.

Jane is a young immigrant in search of a better future. Stuck living in a cramped dorm with her baby daughter and her shrewd aunt Ate, she sees an unmissable chance to change her life. But at what cost?

Welcome to The Farm.

'The Handmaid's Tale of 2019' - Marie Claire
'Set to be one of the biggest books for 2019' - Stylist
'The debut to order now' - Sunday Times
'A firecracker of a novel' - Madeline Miller

Chosen as a book of the summer by the Guardian, Telegraph, Evening Standard and Cosmopolitan,

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Recensione:

This topical, provocative debut anatomises class, race and the American dream (Guardian)

An intelligent, thought-provoking, slyly satirical novel with thrillerish elements, it is also affectingly illuminating about life for an expatriate service class (Sunday Times)

If you only read a single debut this year, make it The Farm (Vogue, Must-Reads)

It's so now . Ramos has crafted a real page-turner that combines all the hottest issues of the day: inequality, race, and women's battle to reclaim their bodies from commodification by big business, with the eternal questions of how much we can sacrifice before losing ourselves completely (Melissa Katsoulis The Times)

Her book is a necessary one - we need a mass-market novel that shows the impact of colonisation . A great read (Dina Nayeri Guardian)

Utterly brilliant. I couldn't put it down! (Christie Watson, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Language of Kindness)

Crammed with acutely observed scenes that place reproduction within an intricate web of class, gender and race (Observer)

For those who can't wait until September for Margaret Atwood's sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, here's a handy interim stand-in. Class, race and issues of power inequality are on the agenda almost as much as gender in this novel about a fertility clinic where surrogates have babies for the ultra-wealthy (i paper)

Excellent . With echoes of The Help and The Handmaid's Tale, The Farm is tipped to be one of the biggest books of the summer, a page-turner which strikes an entertaining balance between exploring topical issues and telling a great story with thoroughly likeable characters (Daily Express)

An intelligent, thought-provoking, slyly satirical novel with thrillerish elements, it is also affectingly illuminating about life for an expatriate service class (SUNDAY TIMES)

Descrizione del libro:

A compulsive, brilliant novel about race, class, family and power for fans of Celeste Ng, Margaret Atwood and Naomi Alderman

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• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1526605252
• ISBN 13: 9781526605252
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 336