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The First Century After Beatrice
by Amin Maalouf; Dorothy S. Blair (trans)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0807613738
- ISBN 13
- 9780807613733
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: George Braziller, June 1995. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition. Baby blue paper over boards with gilt lettering to spine. Very Good book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight, tail lightly bumped. Dust stains to top edge. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 192 pages.
A French entomologist, attending a symposium in Cairo, finds a cruious kind of bean being on a market stall. It is claimed the beans, derived from the scarab beetle, have magic powers; specifically the power to guarantee the brith of a male infant - and when the entomologist does some research in to the matter, discovering the incidence of female birth has become increasingly rare, he is left in no doubt that the world has entered into a critical phase of its history. As his beloved daughter Beatrice approaches maturity, the entomologist and his partner question the validity of gender bias, and attempt to redress the growing imbalance before it reaches irreversible proportions. But in the poverty and famine of the South, where male children can mean the difference between survival and starvation, the popularity of the scarab beans is already taking devastating effect.
A French entomologist, attending a symposium in Cairo, finds a cruious kind of bean being on a market stall. It is claimed the beans, derived from the scarab beetle, have magic powers; specifically the power to guarantee the brith of a male infant - and when the entomologist does some research in to the matter, discovering the incidence of female birth has become increasingly rare, he is left in no doubt that the world has entered into a critical phase of its history. As his beloved daughter Beatrice approaches maturity, the entomologist and his partner question the validity of gender bias, and attempt to redress the growing imbalance before it reaches irreversible proportions. But in the poverty and famine of the South, where male children can mean the difference between survival and starvation, the popularity of the scarab beans is already taking devastating effect.
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- Books of the World
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000000203
- Title
- The First Century After Beatrice
- Author
- Amin Maalouf; Dorothy S. Blair (trans)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0807613738
- ISBN 13
- 9780807613733
- Publisher
- George Braziller
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- June 1995
- Pages
- 192
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- fiction, science fiction, allegories, entomologists, gender, population, sex preselection
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction; Fiction; Erotica; Middle East;
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