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Original Title:	Le premier siècle après Béatrice
ISBN:	0349105995 (ISBN13: 9780349105994)
Edition Language:	English

The First Century After Beatrice

Amin Maalouf

Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

Rating: 3.47 | 2422 Users | 231 Reviews

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Sadly this book was a bit of a letdown. It had an extremely interesting concept- what if mankind found a way to limit the female birth rate? As gradually fewer baby girls are born into the world, what happens to the gender imbalance and how does it affect humanity as a whole? The novel is titled The First Century After Beatrice, but it takes place within a 30 year period- not nearly enough for us to see the lasting impact on the world.

The writing style was dull too- The idea is we're reading some stuffy scientists memoirs, but it was tough going for me. The book felt too factual, and didn't have enough emotional impact.

Perhaps worst of all- This book explores the after effects of discrimination against women, but nearly all the main characters who achieve anything are men. The titicular Beatrice is pretty much a non entity, and I could not stand the main character's wife. Apart from that, the narrator and his male friends all sit around and talk about how to solve this birth rate problem.

In a word- Disappointing!

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Title	:	The First Century After Beatrice
Author	:	Amin Maalouf
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	September 22nd 1994 by Abacus (first published March 18th 1992)
Categories	:	Fiction. Novels. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Cultural. France

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Ratings: 3.47 From 2422 Users | 231 Reviews

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Interesting! A great analysis and criticism of both Eastern and Western civilizations..

This is one of the most beautiful modern novels I have read. Its only flaw is that it's a short book, I have reread it because it leaves me wanting more. I think it's also my favorite work of speculative fiction.The speculation involves the creation and promotion of a drug that prevents women from having girl children. The long term result is economic collapse, and an increase in male violence. The protagonist is a shy entomologist, whose partner and the love of his life is a journalist much

This book is set in the near future, when it has become very easy for people to decide to have male rather than female children. Because in many cultures there are great advantages attached to having male offspring, the world's gender balance becomes very skewed. The book explores the worrying consequences of this. Although this is a work of speculative fiction, it does touch on issues that we may soon have to face, given that it is increasingly easy for breeders to pre-select the gender of

An elegantly written dystopian piece. The author takes as his starting point the preference for male children in many cultures. Folk remedies for encouraging the birth of a male have always existed, and in this short novel Maloof imagines scientists successfully developing such a substance and distributiing it through these channels to avoid legal scrutiny. The substance is irreversible, permanently sterilising the man who ingests it from producing female children. This is initially welcomed in

The First century after Beatrice by one of my favorite authors Amine Maalouf. I felt lucky to find his book on my shelf and read it with so much pleasure. This short novel is about a scientist who narrates how the world happened to change after the birth of his daughter Beatrice. The discovery of a new medicine gave the possibility for parents to define the sex of their child. The substance has the limitation of been irreversible and permanently sterilizing the man who ingests it from producing

Novels about massive global catastrophe tend to be panoramic, or to follow people who are in the thick of things. This novel is instead narrated by a man who spent much of his life in his own academic pursuits, save for a certain period of time acting as part of a think tank that tries to make sense of the consequences of a drug that makes men father only sons.We do get to hear of global consequences, but mostly at a remove. Issues of gender, race, colonialism, immigration and ethics are touched

This book isn't written as a typical novel...there is no growth or character arc for the narrator, a scientist who is writing a series of letters to his daughter, Beatrice. The letters tell her the story of how a "substance" was developed that ensured the birth only of baby boys.Interesting premise, but Maalouf doesn't actually describe the effects very much, let alone the effects on the women themselves. When women are scarce, particularly in patriarchical societies, guess what happens? Do the