🔽 Quick summary 🔽 ✔ Recent Social Media sensation, thanks to Trump, dystopia became our favourite genre ✔ 40 women living in the case, with food and water but without explanation ✔ Short but fascinating, it leaves you speechless with its absurdity.
★★★★★ Thanks to Trump, dystopia became our favourite genre. 40 women were living in a cage, until they face a complete change in their lives. No explanations, just minimum food supply. Women are made to live, but for what? Fascinating dystopia that fills your head with a lot of questions for days. Be prepared.
It leaves you speechless as you finish the book, then in a few minutes you start to think and question, then your head will be filled with questions that won't be answered, for days. Be prepared.
The book was published in 1995, and 1997 in English, but it was little known back then. It's interesting that what made this book revive, with the enormous help from TikTok, was the Trump administration, and the hopelessness that came with it.
Thanks to Trump, dystopia became our favourite genre and it hit the Social Media hard.
It has the similar absurdity as Trump administration, you just can't know what the hell is going on, and similar hopelessness. Why are the 40 women in the cage? What had happened to the our world? What happened when there was an explosion? Why them? And the guards? Why? Where? For what?
The author doesn't explain anything. What we are allowed to know is that what "The Child" the narrator tells us. She knew and cared so little, until one day, she started to think.
In a weird way, the story also reflects some kind of hope, that The Child is willing to learn, even if it would bring no use to her; why bother learning about men and romance, when she will never experience it? Calm harmony that women are capable to produce out of nothing, knowing very well that it will end as nothing. The 40 women do argue sometimes but they never bring any danger to each other. They cling to each other, live with a sense of community with roles and help elderly and understand when it is time to end. In this extreme situation, there are one things they know for sure, that it'll end.
Is it something we'll have to get used to today in our world? Are we merely kept alive with minimum supply of food, but without any aspect of future, because, what is a future when you have no hope?
Absurdity and hopelessness, but unlike the women, things here might change. Hopefully.
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