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Christina Dalcher
1) VOX
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On the day the government decrees that women are no longer allowed more than one hundred words per day, Dr. Jean McClellan is in denial. This can't happen here. Not in America. Not to her. This is just the beginning. Soon women are not permitted to hold jobs. Girls are not taught to read or write. Females no longer have a voice. Before, the average person spoke sixteen thousand words each day, but now women have only one hundred to make themselves...
2) Master class
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"From the critically acclaimed author of Vox comes a suspenseful new novel that explores a disturbing alternate reality where the government has legalized eugenics. Elena Fairchild is a teacher at one of the state's new elite schools, where children undergo routine tests for their quotient (Q). Those who don't measure up are placed in the many state boarding schools that have cropped up under a new government mandate -- Elena's daughter, Freddie,...
3) Voz
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2019
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Situada en unos Estados Unidos donde la mitad de la poblacion ha sido silenciada, Voz es una historia inolvidable y repleta de tension, en la que una mujer se enfrentara a los poderes establecidos para proteger a su hija y a si misma. Cine al dia. Ni una mas. Esa es la cifra de palabras que la neurolinguista Jean McClellan y el resto de mujeres tienen derecho a pronunciar cada dia. Una sola palabra por encima de esa cifra y cientos de voltios de electricidad...
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