The Natural Way of Things

Description

“A Handmaid’s Tale for the 21st century” (Prism Magazine), Wood’s dystopian
tale about a group of young women held prisoner in the Australian desert is a
prescient feminist fable for our times. As the Guardian writes, “contemporary
feminism may have found its masterpiece of horror.” Drugged, dressed in old-
fashioned rags, and fiending for a cigarette, Yolanda wakes up in a barren
room. Verla, a young woman who seems vaguely familiar, sits nearby. Down a
hallway echoing loudly with the voices of mysterious men, in a stark compound
deep in the Australian outback, other captive women are just coming to.
Starved, sedated, the girls can’t be sure of anything—except the painful
episodes in their pasts that link them. Drawing strength from the animal
instincts they’re forced to rely on, the women go from hunted to hunters,
along the way becoming unforgettable and boldly original literary heroines
that readers will both relate to and root for. The Natural Way of Things is a
lucid and illusory fable and a brilliantly plotted novel of ideas that reminds
us of mankind’s own vast contradictions—the capacity for savagery,
selfishness, resilience, and redemption all contained by a single, vulnerable
body. Winner 2016 Stella Prize 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Award in Fiction
An Australian Indie Best Fiction Book & Overall Book of the Year Winner
Finalist 2017 International Dublin Literary Award 2016 Voss Literary Prize
2016 Victorian Premier’s Award 2016 The Miles Franklin Award Read more

Features:

Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Europa Editions; First Edition (June 28, 2016)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 160945362X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 26
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.3 x 0.7 x 8.2 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #1,053,041 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #7,661 in Psychological Fiction (Books) #14,866 in Psychological Thrillers (Books) #48,084 in Literary Fiction (Books)
• #7,661 in Psychological Fiction (Books)
• #14,866 in Psychological Thrillers (Books)