Womb City
- Authors
- Tlotlo Tsamaase
- Publisher
- Erewhon Books
- Tags
- afrofuturism , africanfuturism , black fiction , black horror , octavia butler , kindred , ivf , women , microchips , inequality , crime , murder , mystery , parable of the sower , handmaid's tale , african fiction , pregnancy , scifi horror , cyberpunk
- Date
- 2024-01-23
- Size
- 2.06 MB
- Lang
- en
"A fierce, furious, and fearless debut that has its finger on the pulseno, the gushing woundof our world's most invasive cruelties." Daniel Kraus, New York Times bestselling co-author of The Shape of Water "Masterful . . . Tsamaase has created a disturbing techno dystopia in a future Botswana that terrifies with its echoes of our own increasingly authoritarian cyber-policed world. This beautifully written work haunts and upends expectations with its resurrected ghosts and gods and ancestors of Motswana cosmology. What an accomplished debut!" T. L. Huchu, Caine Prize finalist and author of The Library of the Dead This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid's Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her own body. Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited...