From the winner of the Orange Award for New Writers, an epic
novel of childbirth--past, present, and future
The year is 1865. In Vienna, Dr. Ignasz Semmelweiss has been
hounded into an asylum by his medical peers, ridiculed for his
claim that doctors' unwashed hands are the root cause of childbed
fever. In present-day London, Bridget Hughes juggles her young son,
husband, and mother as she plans her home birth, unprepared for the
trial she is about to endure. Somewhere in 2135, in a world where
humans are birthed and raised in breeding farms, Prisoner 730004 is
on trial for concealing a pregnancy.
Through three stories spanning centuries, acclaimed novelist
Joanna Kavenna explores the most basic plight of women, from the
slaughterhouse of primitive medicine to a futurisic vision of
technological oppression. Poised at the midpoint is Bridget, whose
fervent belief in the wisdom of nature is tested in one of the most
gripping accounts of labor to appear in fiction.
Original, powerful, and played out against a vast canvas, "The
Birth of Love" is at once a novel about the creation of human life,
science and faith, madness and compromise, and the epic journey of
motherhood.
General
Imprint: |
Faber and Faber
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
May 2011 |
First published: |
May 2011 |
Authors: |
Joanna Kavenna
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Dimensions: |
197 x 125 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - B-format
|
Pages: |
320 |
Edition: |
Main |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-571-24518-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
0-571-24518-8 |
Barcode: |
9780571245185 |
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