An Excess Male: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

From debut author Maggie Shen King, An Excess Male may be the chilling dystopian tale of politics, inequality, marriage, love, and rebellion, occur a near-future China, that further explores the themes from the classics The Handmaid’s Tale and When She Woke.

Under the One Child Policy, everyone plotted to have a son. Now 40 million of these can’t find wives.

China’s ONE YOUNG CHILD Policy and its own cultural preference for man heirs have manufactured a society overrun by 40 million unmarriageable males. By about An Excess Man: A Novel the year 2030, more than twenty-five percent of males in their late thirties won’t have a family of their personal. An Excess Man is one particular leftover man’s quest for like and family under a State that looks for to glorify its past mistakes and impose purchase through authoritarian actions, reinvigorated Communist ideals, and sociable engineering.

Wei-guo retains fast to the belief that so long as he proceeds to boost himself, his small company, and in turn, his nation, his chance at love will come. He finally will save up the dowry necessary to enter matchmaking discussions at the cheapest rung as a third husband-the optimum allowed by law. Only a single family-one harboring an unlawful spouse-shows interest, yet with May-ling and her two husbands, Wei-guo feels noticed, heard, and connected to like nothing you’ve seen prior. But everyone and everything-walls, streetlights, garbage cans-are listening, and men, unwanted or not really, are dispensable towards the Condition. Wei-guo must reach a new understanding of patriotism and check the limits of his like and his fix in order to save himself and this family he offers come to carry dear.

In Maggie Shen King’s startling and beautiful debut, An Excess Male looks to explore the intersection of relationship, family, gender, and state within an all-too-plausible future.