Into the Forest - A novel

Jean Hegland

Dial Press

1998

241 páginas

8h 2m

ISBN-13: 9780553379617

Set in the near-future, Into the Forest is a powerfully imagined novel that focuses on the relationship between two teenage sisters living alone in their Northern California forest home.

Over 30 miles from the nearest town, and several miles away from their nearest neighbor, Nell and Eva struggle to survive as society begins to decay and collapse around them. No single event precedes society's fall. There is talk of a war overseas and upheaval in Congress, but it still comes as a shock when the electricity runs out and gas is nowhere to be found. The sisters consume the resources left in the house, waiting for the power to return. Their arrival into adulthood, however, forces them to reexamine their place in the world and their relationship to the land and each other.

Reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's A Handmaid's Tale, Into the Forest is a mesmerizing and thought-provoking novel of hope and despair set in a frighteningly plausible near-future America.

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4 (Muito bom)

Gosto de histórias distópicas: fim do mundo, solidão, escassez.

Tenho percebido (infelizmente) que os livros fictícios de fim de mundo são meio parecidos com o que já vivemos (!) Quero dizer, talvez não para mim ou você que aqui lê o que escrevo, mas não já existem pessoas que lutam para manter o básico para sua existência? E não é isso do que se trata essas narrativas?

Irmãs fazem seu melhor para viver e elaborar o fim, às vezes acertando, as vezes errando, como toda vida acaba por ser. Gostei : )