The New Eve - by Moussa Ould Ebnou (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

In a world where love is a crime, one forbidden connection dares to change everything

A feminist dystopian novel for adults about forbidden love under a totalitarian regime--ideal for readers of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Octavia Butler, and Ursula K. Le Guin. The New Eve blends dystopian romance books with LGBTQ dystopian fiction, gender identity sci fi, and surveillance state fiction to ask what we're willing to become for the people we love.

When love is a crime and bodies are battlegrounds, two souls risk everything to reunite--even if it means erasing who they were to become who they must be. In a future where men and women live in enforced segregation, reproduction is mechanized, and attachment is illegal, Adam and Maneki commit the ultimate transgression: they fall in love. The androgynous rulers' crackdown shatters their world, sending them to rehabilitation camps that weaponize hormones, memory, and ideology. To survive, each must choose: surrender the self--or fight for a connection the state insists cannot exist.

Why you'll love this book
*A fresh entry in dystopian books for adults: philosophical, visceral, and emotionally high-stakes.
*Big-idea biopolitics dystopia: artificial reproduction sci fi meets totalitarian regime fiction and surveillance state fiction.
*Gender, identity, and transformation: a bold exploration of body autonomy and the fluid self--core to gender identity sci fi.
*Forbidden love at the heart of the story: a sweeping, intimate arc for fans of dystopian romance books and LGBTQ dystopian fiction.
*Worldbuilding with teeth: enforced segregation, mechanized childbirth, rehabilitation camps, and the machinery of control.

Perfect for readers who enjoy
*The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood), Red Rising (Pierce Brown), The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, The Grace Year, The Darkness Outside Us, and the humanistic lens of Becky Chambers' Wayfarers.
*Thought-provoking sci fi books for adults that fuse myth, science, and politics into an unforgettable narrative.

Back-of-book promise If you're searching for dystopian books, dystopian books for adults, sci fi books for adults, feminist dystopian novels, or speculative fiction that interrogates love, identity, and power, The New Eve belongs at the top of your list.,

About the Author

Moussa Ould Ebnou is a professor of philosophy at the University of Nouakchott in Mauritania and the publisher at DIWAN publishing house, which specializes in publishing Saharan science fiction. Moussa Ould Ebnou is regarded as one of the most innovative writers in African literature today. He is the author of numerous novels in double versions, French and Arabic, in which he masterfully mixes science fiction and mysticism, history and myth, truth and fiction, philosophy and literature. Moussa Ould Ebnou is a professor of philosophy at the University of Nouakchott in Mauritania and the publisher at DIWAN publishing house, which specializes in publishing Saharan science fiction. Moussa Ould Ebnou is regarded as one of the most innovative writers in African literature today. He is the author of numerous novels in double versions, French and Arabic, in which he masterfully mixes science fiction and mysticism, history and myth, truth and fiction, philosophy and literature.