VOX: One of the most talked about dystopian fiction books and Sunday Times best sellers

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We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. Vox's journalism is free, because we believe that everyone deserves to understand the world they live in. iVOX includes music, narration, highlighted text, and immersive visuals that bring the book to life. With VOX, Christina Dalcher explores a concept that has explored many times: what happens if a bunch of radical extremists seize control of a nation and oppress them with brutal savagery in the name of a greater good?

Now she's fighting for the lives of everyone she loves as part of an underground resistance network. If we must learn, let us ask our husbands in the closeness of the home, for it is shameful that a woman question God-ordained male leadership. Little girls do have that ability to pull at our heartstrings while simultaneously being the vehicle for the truly sinister moments in social commentary in literature, don’t they? Any "Author Information" displayed below reflects the author's biography at the time this particular book was published. But the point of the novel is not, clearly, to present a real potential future, but to highlight the importance of speech, of language in personal and political freedom, particularly for women.A petrifying re-imagining of The Handmaid's Tale in the present and a timely reminder of the power and importance of language. The frightening part is how a society is easily brain washed into thinking the "pure" movement is the only truth and there can be no resistance or critique, something Dr Jean McClellan faces when she's afraid her own son might report her.

Women in all the country wore some sort of torturing devices like bracelets on their wrists (as well as young girls, no matter the age) that only allowed them to speak one hundred words per day.In addition, women who 'fornicate' with men outside of marriage and engage in pre-marital relations are first punished publicly. There are mentions of expanding Christian communities taking over and forcing people to follow their ways.