The Grace Year
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- USD 17.99
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- USD 17.99
Descripción editorial
"Niemand spricht über das Gnadenjahr. Es ist verboten."
In Garner County heißt es, dass junge Frauen die Macht besitzen, Ehemänner aus ihren Betten zu locken und Jungen in den Wahnsinn zu treiben. Um diese Kräfte zu verlieren, werden sie für ein Jahr in die Wildnis verbannt. Wer zurückkommt, wird verheiratet oder ins Arbeitshaus geschickt. Aber es kommen nie alle lebend zurück. Nur in ihren Träumen ist Tierney James frei, umgeben von Rebellinnen. Doch als ihr Gnadenjahr beginnt, spürt sie erst, wie tief verwurzelt der Hass ist. Denn nicht die Natur oder die tödlichen Wilderer, die ihnen auflauern, sind die größte Gefahr. Es sind die Mädchen selbst.
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Women are submissive, girls are pitted against each other, and misogyny is the governing principle in this heavy-handed mash-up of The Handmaid's Tale, The Hunger Games, and Lord of the Flies. Clever narrator Tierney James lives in a community where men hold absolute power over women, who greatly outnumber them; a woman's only value is as a wife, unmarried women are sent to workhouses and fields, and punishments (hanging, sexual slavery) are doled out on a whim. When young women turn 16, they embark on their Grace Year banishment to an isolated compound to purify themselves of their "magic" before returning to forced marriage or work. As Tierney begins her Grace Year, she and the others must survive with few resources while poachers prowl the compound's perimeter, hoping to rape and dismember captured girls (they'll bottle and later sell their parts, which are believed to possess magical, medicinal powers). After Tierney is banished from the group by a cruel ringleader, she falls for a kindhearted poacher, whose interest in her threatens his position. Though the prose is evocative and the pacing well done, gratuitous violence and flimsy characters eclipse what seems like intended commentary on women's perpetuation of misogyny. Ultimately, the many malignant forces at work in this bloody, over-the-top novel fail to become more than the sum of their parts. Ages 14 up.
