The First Century after Beatrice
first publication date: 1992
original title: Le Premier siècle après Béatrice
original language: French
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The First Century after Beatrice (French: Le Premier siècle après Béatrice) is a 1992 novel by the French-Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf. The story is set in a near future, where a pharmacological company markets, in the guise of a traditional folk remedy, a drug by which parents can choose to only have sons. The story is told from the first-person point of view of an entomologist. As the disastrous consequences of the skewed male/female birth ratio resulting from the drug multiply, he transitions from pondering and documenting them to organizing a body of scientists who attempt to reckon with the disaster. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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4- date of publication: 1993ISBN-13: 978-0-7043-7051-7
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