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The First Century After Beatrice
  
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The First Century After Beatrice (Hardcover)
by Amin Maalouf (Author), Dorothy S. Blair (Translator)
3.0 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)

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Product details
  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Quartet Books (Oct 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0704370514
  • ISBN-13: 978-0704370517
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,905,021 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Great...! but Maalouf has written better, 23 Aug 2004
By B. L. Weber "Benjo" (England/Brazil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The First Century After Beatrice (Paperback)
I have read a fair few of Maalouf's novels and I have enjoyed every single one of them and have him top of my favourite authors list.

He is a truly gifted author, always writing beautiful and hypnotic tales, mixing fact with fiction. With The First Century After Beatrice, he doesn't let us down on these points. A very scary scenario, based along demographic change - through the simple idea (based in fact) of the affect of certain beans causing more males to be born than females - is skilfully and brilliantly presented to us, through excellently intertwined plots based through the individual protagonists and then at the global level around them.

It sounds... for lack of other words in my vocabulary... a wierd idea to build a novel around, but Maalouf does it incredibly well - grabbing us into the story and gripping us as we read it. I don't believe that any other author could do this to such a subject.
He makes the scenario transpire as incredibly scary and when we think about it, when one looks to the one-child policy in China (and the subsequent increased proportion of male-to-female in the population), he allows and helps us to open our eyes to such policies and such social trends and desires. This s