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  The Birth of Love (Paperback) By (author) Joanna Kavenna

  

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  Short Description for The Birth of LoveOriginal, powerful, and played out against a vast canvas, "The Birth of Love" is at once a novel about the creation of human life, science and faith, madness and compromise, and the epic journey of motherhood.
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  • Publisher: Metropolitan Books
  • Published: 13 April 2010
  • Format: Paperback 304 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780805091540 ISBN 10: 0805091548
  • Sales rank: 419,533

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• From the winner of the Orange Award for New Writers, an epic novel of childbirth--past, present, and future The year is 1865. In Vienna, Dr. Ignasz Semmelweiss has been hounded into an asylum by his medical peers, ridiculed for his claim that doctors' unwashed hands are the root cause of childbed fever. In present-day London, Bridget Hughes juggles her young son, husband, and mother as she plans her home birth, unprepared for the trial she is about to endure. Somewhere in 2135, in a world where humans are birthed and raised in breeding farms, Prisoner 730004 is on trial for concealing a pregnancy.Through three stories spanning centuries, acclaimed novelist Joanna Kavenna explores the most basic plight of women, from the slaughterhouse of primitive medicine to a futurisic vision of technological oppression. Poised at the midpoint is Bridget, whose fervent belief in the wisdom of nature is tested in one of the most gripping accounts of labor to appear in fiction.Original, powerful, and played out against a vast canvas, "The Birth of Love" is at once a novel about the creation of human life, science and faith, madness and compromise, and the epic journey of motherhood.