The book
A new world, no longer brave.
It’s the near future, a time of new technologies – “bodyware” implants having replaced most past means of communication – but also of climate change and dwindling resources.
Francine is a luminary in her field of evolutionary science. She joins the Foundation to study a colony of bonobo apes: remarkable animals, and the perfect creatures to certify her revolutionary feminist theory of reproduction.
When the terrible, dry winds rise up and cut off the Foundation, silencing all the devices and endangering the survival of animals and humans alike, Francine and the man she has grown to love make a decision that may determine the possibility of a premature ending or a chance to start life over.
A literary novel with elements of dystopia and science fiction, Theory of Bastards is an absorbing, recognizable story that will keep readers turning the pages.
The author
Audrey Schulman
Audrey Schulman is the author of four previous novels. Her third, Three Weeks in December, was published by Europa Editions in 2012. Her work has been translated into eleven languages. Born in Montreal, Schulman now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she runs a not-for-profit energy efficiency organisation with her husband.
Reviews
- Jun 16 2018
In delighted havoc
— The Times Literary Suplement - Jun 3 2018
Theory of Bastards, Audrey Schulman: I Still Dream, James Smythe
— The Big Issue - Apr 23 2018
PW Picks: Books of the Week, April 23, 2018
— Publishers Weekly - Apr 19 2018
Into the storm, with a band of bonobos
— The Economist - Feb 15 2018
Theory of Bastards ☆
— Kirkus Review - Jan 8 2018
Theory of Bastards
— The Bookseller