TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maalouf,Amin
AU  - Blair,Dorothy S.
TI  - The first century after Beatrice / 
SN  - 0349105994
AV  - PQ3979.2.M28 P7413 1994
U1  - 843 20
PY  - 1994///
CY  - London : 
PB  - Abacus, 
KW  - lemac
KW  - Població
KW  - Ficció
KW  - Segle XXI
KW  - Literatura i societat
KW  - LITERATURA
KW  - LITERATURE
KW  - SOCIEDAD
KW  - SOCIETY
KW  - SIGLO XXI
KW  - 21st CENTURY
N2  - A French entomologist, attending a symposium in Cairo, finds a cruious kind of bean being on a market stall. It is claimed the beans, derived from the scarab beetle, have magic powers; specifically the power to guarantee the brith of a male infant - and when the entomologist does some research in to the matter, discovering the incidence of female birth has become increasingly rare, he is left in no doubt that the world has entered intoa critical phase of its history.As this beloved daughter Beatrice approaches maturity, the entomologist and his partner question the validity of gender bias, and attempt to redress the growing imbalance before it reaches irreversible proportions. But in the poverty and famine of the South, where male children can mean the difference between survival and starvation, the popularity of the scarab beans is already taking devastating effect.
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