📘 "Sultana's Dream" by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
This is a short story from (now) Bangladesh, not a full novel. I read it through the Serial Reader app, and it existed of only two issues.
It's sad that it's so short, because it was fascinating. It's a sci-fi utopia tale from 1905 (!) about Ladyland, a mysterious region where women rule and men are locked up indoors. Women have expanded their studies, developing science to have renewable energy from the sun and a solution to water shortages by extracting moisture from the air.
Public life is practical, but aesthetically pleasing, with an eye for detail. There's barely any crime. Life is peaceful and good. A girl can dream. Dreaming in 1905 and still dreaming now, too many years later.
In a review elsewhere I saw some artwork for the text made by Chitra Ganesh. I found all of them here:
https://www.durhampress.com/viewing-room/4-chitra-ganesh-sultana-s-dream/
They're really cool and fit the story beautifully.
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