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A Woman's War Against Progress

A Woman's War Against Progress

Allan Cameron
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In 1916 a young woman, Rahväema, leaves the forest community where
she grew up, and sets off for a century-long adventure whose struggles and
sufferings she could never have imagined. She becomes a campaigner for
her Surelik language and culture, and in doing this she expands her horizons
and is paradoxically drawn away from the language she loves and wants
to defend. The novel confronts the personal costs of political activism and
questions our ability to mould our future rationally and morally, whilst also
suggesting that we have no choice but to attempt precisely that.

A fortuitous coincidence of events allows her to establish an autonomous
republic for her people, the Surelikud, but power brings not only opportunities
but also compromises and betrayals. She lives too long and thus she lives
to see her achievements crumble. The novel has many themes, but the way
progress is used or abused in order to worsen the living conditions of humanity

is the primary one. Rahväema is the first-person narrator but her ideas about
progress are not necessarily the author’s, but would be understandable in
someone coming from her background.

The novel has an original structure involving a dictation which provokes
arguments between the generations represented by the narrator and the
woman who writes her words. There are stories within the story, and reflections
on the evils some inventions bring with them.
Language
English
Pages
376
Format
Paperback
Release
October 02, 2023
ISBN 13
9781913212353

A Woman's War Against Progress

Allan Cameron
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
In 1916 a young woman, Rahväema, leaves the forest community where
she grew up, and sets off for a century-long adventure whose struggles and
sufferings she could never have imagined. She becomes a campaigner for
her Surelik language and culture, and in doing this she expands her horizons
and is paradoxically drawn away from the language she loves and wants
to defend. The novel confronts the personal costs of political activism and
questions our ability to mould our future rationally and morally, whilst also
suggesting that we have no choice but to attempt precisely that.

A fortuitous coincidence of events allows her to establish an autonomous
republic for her people, the Surelikud, but power brings not only opportunities
but also compromises and betrayals. She lives too long and thus she lives
to see her achievements crumble. The novel has many themes, but the way
progress is used or abused in order to worsen the living conditions of humanity

is the primary one. Rahväema is the first-person narrator but her ideas about
progress are not necessarily the author’s, but would be understandable in
someone coming from her background.

The novel has an original structure involving a dictation which provokes
arguments between the generations represented by the narrator and the
woman who writes her words. There are stories within the story, and reflections
on the evils some inventions bring with them.
Language
English
Pages
376
Format
Paperback
Release
October 02, 2023
ISBN 13
9781913212353

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