{"product_id":"before-she-sleeps-paperback","title":"Before She Sleeps - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBina Shah\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn modern, beautiful Green City, the capital of South West Asia, gender selection, war and disease have brought the ratio of women to men to alarmingly low levels. The government uses terror and technology to control its people, and women must take multiple husbands to have more female children as quickly as possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet there are women who resist, women who live in the Panah, an underground collective and refuse to be part of the system. Secretly protected by the highest echelons of power, they emerge only at night, to provide to the rich and elite of Green City a type of commodity that nobody can buy: \u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eintimate, non-sexual companionship. In this city, exclusivity is the highest pleasure\u003cstrong\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e But as it turns out, not even the most influential men can shield the women of the Panah from discovery and the dangers of ruthless punishment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis dystopian novel from one of Pakistan's most talented writers is a modern-day parable: answering the \u003cem\u003eThe Handmaid's Tale\u003c\/em\u003e with an explosive imagining of women's lives in repressive Middle Eastern and South Asian countries. It takes the patriarchal practices of female seclusion and veiling, gender selection, and control over women's bodies, amplifies and distorts them in a truly terrifying way to envision a world of post-religious authoritarianism over women's lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 250\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 13, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42151524237447,"sku":"9781883285807","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/93d8ce7853a55647885e24dc4216861e.webp?v=1733207641","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/before-she-sleeps-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}