Wormmaan

Elke drags along the woman she was supposed to become, silently raging against push-up bras, sensible shoes and frilly lingerie. Struggling to accept herself as she is, she realises that in developing new plant varieties she forces them into shape just as others try to force her. Beside her story runs a second one, set some nine millennia earlier when people first began to farm, told by our distant forebears. A single pea plant links the two timelines, and the novel keeps asking who we are, where we fit and what group we long to join.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

259 pages in the original

Genres

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First published

2021 by Atlas Contact

Author's age

38 when first published

ISBN

9789025470722 (original)

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