The Females

by Wolfgang Hilbig

Book Overview

From award-winning author-and-translator combination Wolfgang Hilbig and Isabel Fargo Cole

What can an irascible East German tell us about how society shapes relations between the sexes? A lot it turns out. Acclaimed as one of Wolfgang Hilbig's major works, The Females finds the lauded author focusing his labyrinthine, mercurial mind on how unequal societies can pervert sexuality and destroy a healthy, productive understanding of gender. It begins with a factory laborer who ogles women in secret on the job. When those same women mysteriously vanish from their small town, the worker sets out on a hallucinatory journey to find them. Powerful and at times disturbing, The Females leaves us with some of the most challenging, radical, and enduring insights of any novel from the GDR.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931883769
• ISBN13: 9781931883764
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Two Lines Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.4" x 6.9"
• Age Range: 17 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher