The Natural Way of Things

The Natural Way of Things

â€œA Handmaidâ€™s Tale for the 21st centuryâ€ (Prism Magazine), Woodâ€™s dystopian tale about a group of young women held prisoner in the Australian desert is a prescient feminist fable for our times. As the Guardian writes, â€œcontemporary feminism may have found its masterpiece of horror.â€

Drugged, dressed in old-fashioned rags, and fiending for a cigarette, Yolanda wakes up in a barren room. Verla, a young woman who seems vaguely familiar, sits nearby. Down a hallway echoing loudly with the voices of mysterious men, in a stark compound deep in the Australian outback, other captive women are just coming to. Starved, sedated, the girls can't be sure of anythingâ€”except the painful episodes in their pasts that link them.

Drawing strength from the animal instincts they're forced to rely on, the women go from hunted to hunters, along the way becoming unforgettable and boldly original literary heroines that readers will both relate to and root for.

The Natural Way of Things is a lucid and illusory fable and a brilliantly plotted novel of ideas that reminds us of mankind's own vast contradictionsâ€”the capacity for savagery, selfishness, resilience, and redemption all contained by a single, vulnerable body.Â

Winner
2016 Stella Prize
2016 Prime Ministerâ€™s Literary Award in Fiction

An AustralianÂ Indie Best Fiction Book & Overall Book of the Year Winner

Finalist
2017 International Dublin Literary Award
2016 Voss Literary Prize
2016 Victorian Premier's Award
2016 The Miles Franklin Award
Country USA
Brand Europa Editions
Manufacturer Europa Editions
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2016-06-28
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781609453626

Country	USA
Brand	Europa Editions
Manufacturer	Europa Editions
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2016-06-28
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781609453626

The Natural Way of Things

You might also like...