Ling Ma’s début novel, “Severance,” is set not in the near-future typical of dysto
Ling Ma’s début novel, “Severance,” is set not in the near-future typical of dystopian fantasies but in a reimagined version of the recent past—specifically, autumn, 2011, around the time of the Occupy Wall Street protests. Ling Ma flouts tropes of dystopian fiction, conjuring an experience of the apocalypse that brings into consideration capitalism and immigration, and captures the bleak, fatalistic mood of 2018. Read the full review of “Severance” here. -- source link
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