The Children of Men (Paperback)

P. D. James (author)

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Paperback 352 Pages / Published: 05/04/2018

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In a world facing human extinction and ruled by a despot, Theo Faren’s life is turned around by a chance encounter with a young woman and a group of dissenters in this haunting, timeless dystopian tale from P.D. James.

The year is 2021.

No child has been born for twenty-five years.

The human race faces extinction.

Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is, until a chance encounter with a young woman leads him into contact with a group of dissenters. Suddenly his life is changed irrevocably as he faces agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind.

Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571342211
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 280 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 21 mm
Edition: Main

P. D. James

P.D. James, who passed in 2014, was instrumental in bringing a contemporary, literary edge to British crime writing. With twisting plots to match the probing intelligence of her key protagonist Adam Dalgliesh, from 1962’s Cover Her Face onward James challenged and exceeded the genre. 1972’s An Unsuitable Job for a Woman took James into the murky realms of the private detective and 1992’s Children of Men even saw the author journey into near-future science fiction with assured results.

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