The Tiger Flu

di Larissa Lai (Autore)

Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018

WINNER, Lambda Literary Award In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai—her first in sixteen years—a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by the male-dominated Salt Water City, goes to war against disease, technology, and powerful men that threaten them with extinction. Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover Peristrophe is a “starfish,” a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clone sisters whose organs are failing. When a denizen from Salt Water City suffering from a mysterious flu comes into their midst, Peristrophe becomes infected and dies, prompting Kirilow to travel to Salt Water City, where the flu is now a pandemic, to find a new starfish who will help save her sisters. There, Kirilow meets Kora, a girl-woman desperate to save her family from the epidemic. Kora has everything Kirilow is looking for, except the will to abandon her own family. But before Kirilow can convince her, both are kidnapped by a group of powerful men to serve as test subjects for a new technology that can cure the mind of the body. Bold, beautiful, and wildly imaginative, The Tiger Flu is at once a female hero’s saga, a cyberpunk thriller, and a convention-breaking cautionary tale—a striking metaphor for our complicated times. In a way, it's a response to Cormac McCarthy's The Road, a novel I loved for its spare beauty, its eye to the darkness, and its tenderness, but also hated because it got rid of women from the start. The Tiger Flu is my attempt to write a novel in which the women live. They may or may not remain human, but they live, and the multi-form life on earth continues, albeit radically changed.” The author on her influences, and on writing a speculative novel that is grounded in our contemporary cultural reality: “I loved Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao for the ways it takes up the serious and very real history of the Dominican Republic, while making space for a fantasy/SF storyline. I loved Gueillermo del Toro's film Pan's Labyrinth for the way it pushes the fantasy edge of realism even further. There's got to be a slice of the world we inhabit even in the most fantastic novel, because readers and writers come from that place. But as far as possible, I want to create immersive worlds akin to Tolkien, Herbert, and George Lucas, but with BIPOC, GBLTQ2S and non-binary folk at the centre.” Blurbs by Junot Diaz (tentative), Eden Robinson, Kim Stanley Robinson (American science-fiction writer), Wayde Compton.

• Autore: Larissa Lai
• Anno edizione: 2018
• Editore: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Formato: EPUB3 con Adobe DRM
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9781551527321

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