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Title:
The Children of Men

Author:
P D James

Book description:
This is a dystopian(反烏托邦)novel. A film adaptation was made in 2006.

Set in 2021, the entire human population has been rendered infertile. The world is heading to a very quiet and desperate extinction. The population ages and diminishes as people await the inevitable fading away of humanity; and hope and meaning have gone. In the UK the rational dictatorship of the Warden has engineered calm and stability with many tradeoffs on human rights and freedom.

未來世界遭遇滅種危機，沒有新生兒的誕生，將讓人類種族無法延續下去。英國人民一片恐慌，被一名鐵腕領袖以強硬手段鎮壓。改編電影廣獲影評人激賞、另獲Oscar 2007改編劇本、剪接及攝影提名。

Review:
"A book of such accelerating tension that the pages seem to turn faster as one moves along." —Chicago Tribune

"As scary and suspenseful as anything in Hitchcock." —The NewYorker


“She (the author) writes like an angel. Every character isclosely drawn. Her atmosphere is unerringly, chillingly convincing. And she manages all this without for a moment slowing down the drive and tension of an exciting mystery.”
—The Times (UK)