The Hive
In a nameless country, an economic crisis occurred, unemployment soared, and a dictator rose to power who solved the problem simply: he forbade women from working so that they would not take jobs from men. A woman's place is at...
home, where she is meant to bear children and take care of her husband, isn't it?
For three decades, half of the country's population has lived with their heads down. Most women have been assigned to be voiceless appendages to men and regularly produce children, while some have still been obligated to work, but were only given heavy and dirty jobs that men would not agree to, and were declared to be not even second-class, but third-class people. All these years, women have been raised accordingly – from childhood, they hear that they are good for nothing else – but some do not succumb to brainwashing. And now, thirty years later, a few disenfranchised workers are secretly preparing for a rebellion in the basement of an abandoned house under the cover of darkness, which one of them has planned for years, while in the meantime, the secret police are searching for them all over the city...
For three decades, half of the country's population has lived with their heads down. Most women have been assigned to be voiceless appendages to men and regularly produce children, while some have still been obligated to work, but were only given heavy and dirty jobs that men would not agree to, and were declared to be not even second-class, but third-class people. All these years, women have been raised accordingly – from childhood, they hear that they are good for nothing else – but some do not succumb to brainwashing. And now, thirty years later, a few disenfranchised workers are secretly preparing for a rebellion in the basement of an abandoned house under the cover of darkness, which one of them has planned for years, while in the meantime, the secret police are searching for them all over the city...
Author: Маргарет О'Доннелл
Printhouse: Azbuka
Series: Big Novel
Age restrictions: 18+
Year of publication: 2026
ISBN: 9785389270541
Number of pages: 416
Size: 216x145x27 mm
Cover type: hard
Weight: 880 g
ID: 1737931
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Expected delivery time – up to 3 weeks
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