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By: Lauren Beukes

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  • CategoryScience Fiction
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Pages447
  • Published2020
  • File size1.6 MB
  • FormatPDF
  • ISBN9780718182816

Key ideas from the book

  • A virus has transformed society by wiping out 99% of the men on Earth.
  • Cole and her son Miles must stay on the move to protect him.
  • The scarcity of men makes Miles a target for people who want to capture him.
  • Cole’s escape involves breaking new rules and leaving her sister behind.
  • The pursuit raises questions of trust and loyalty in a hostile world.

About Afterland by Lauren Beukes

Three years after a virus has wiped out 99% of the men on Earth, Cole and her son, Miles, are on the run. In a world where men have become a prized commodity, keeping Miles safe means breaking new rules and fleeing across a hostile country.

Lauren Beukes’s 2020 science-fiction thriller centres on survival, trust, and loyalty in a society transformed by catastrophe. Readers drawn to dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction may find its focus on a mother and son navigating this changed world especially compelling.

About Lauren Beukes

Lauren Beukes is a South African novelist, journalist, and screenwriter whose fiction blends speculative ideas with crime, horror, and social commentary. Her novels include Moxyland, Zoo City, The Shining Girls, Broken Monsters, and Afterland. Zoo City, set in a sharply imagined Johannesburg, won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Beukes’s work often explores how technology, power, violence, and inequality shape everyday life. She is known for combining distinctive settings and high-concept…

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