THE LAST WOMAN: A Novel of Survival and Resistance

"In a world where women became property, one woman decided to become something else entirely." >Designated HV-7 - the Red Silence - it swept through every continent in nineteen months. When the silence finally settled, ninety-four percent of the world's women were gone. The civilization that reassembled itself in the aftermath was not built for the ones who survived. It was built around them. Women were assigned, protected, documented, and traded between the men who had always wanted power and now finally had the numbers to take it. Mara Voss survived the Red Silence in a hospital ward in Hamburg, watching forty-seven women die before the world outside finished collapsing. Four years later, she is twenty-six years old, living in a compound in northern France run by a man who calls himself a protector - and who has put her name on an alliance list without asking. She has three days before she becomes a treaty clause. She has been planning her escape for six months. Running north through occupied France, Mara picks up two companions: Nadia, a structural engineer from Lagos who draws the faces of everyone she has lost and carries them on her walls; and Lena, a young woman who spent four months as a commodity before deciding to become something else. Together, they follow rumors of a place called Sanctuary - a settlement of two hundred women in the Belgian Ardennes, built without permission, defended without mercy, accountable to no man and no council and no clan. Sanctuary is real. And the men outside have decided it cannot be allowed to remain that way. The Last Woman is a dystopian feminist thriller about what women build when no one is watching, what it costs to defend it, and the most radical act possible in a broken world: choosing to stay. Precise, propulsive, and deeply humane, this novel asks the questions that matter most when civilization resets: Who gets to decide who belongs? What do you owe the people who survived alongside you? And when you finally find somewhere worth protecting - do you have the courage to call it home? For readers of The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, The Power by Naomi Alderman, and Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler.

Pagina's: 122, Paperback, Independently published