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New York: George Braziller, June 1995. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition. Baby blue paper over boards with gilt lettering to spine. Very Good book in a Fine jacket. Interior pristine. Spine straight and very tight, tail lightly bumped. Dust stains to top edge. Jacket clean and bright. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. 192 pages. A French entomologist, attending a symposium in Cairo, finds a cruious kind of bean being on a market stall. It is claimed the beans, derived from the scarab beetle, have magic powers; specifically the power to guarantee the brith of a male infant - and when the entomologist does some research in to the matter, discovering the incidence of female birth has become increasingly rare, he is left in no doubt that the world has entered into a critical phase of its history. As his beloved daughter Beatrice approaches maturity, the entomologist and his partner question the validity of gender bias, and attempt to redress the growing imbalance before it reaches…
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- Title The First Century After Beatrice: a Novel By Amin Maalouf
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- Date 1995-06
- ISBN 9780807613733
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