{"product_id":"9781925760187","title":"The Shining Wall","description":"Author: Melissa Ferguson\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781925760187\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Transit Lounge\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Apr 2019\u003cbr\u003ePages: 298\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a ruined world, where wealthy humanspush health and longevity to extremes and surround themselves with a shiningmetal wall, privilege and security is predicated on the services of clonedNeandertals, and the exploitation of women in the shanty towns and wastelandsbeyond the fortress city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis isthe frightening yet moving story of orphaned Alida and her younger sisterGraycie, and their struggle for survival in the Demi-Settlements outside thewall. When the sisters are forced to enter the City by very different meansthey risk being separated forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClonedNeandertal officer, Shuqba is exiled to a security outpost in theDemi-Settlements when she fails to adhere to the impossible standards set forher species within the City. Will she offer a lifeline to Alida or betray her?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Shining Wall\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a frightening parable ofour unjust world of haves and have nots, a richly imagined yet thrilling storyof technological control and the fight for survival, and a paean to femalefriendship and power.\u0026amp;nbsp;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Gripping from the word GO. A\u0026amp;nbsp;fearlessly feminist imagining of the entire fractured human genus in afuture none of us should ever have to face. \u003ci\u003eThe Shining\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWall \u003c\/i\u003e\u0026amp;nbsp;enshrinesfamiliar relationships even as it destroys genre tropes about a woman's role ina ruined world. Leave it to a new voice like this to set the post-apocalypticconstruction on its ear. A triumph of realistic science fiction.' - Meg Elison, author of \u003ci\u003eTheBook of the Unnamed Midwife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Grittyand voicey, perhaps prescient, this is a gripping dystopia from a shining newvoice.' -\u0026amp;nbsp;Marlee Jane Ward, author of \u003ci\u003eWelcome to Orphancorp\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePsynode\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46867089522846,"sku":"ADS-9781925760187","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781925760187.jpg?v=1779429625","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781925760187","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}