Suicide Club
A story about living
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Suicide Club
Narrated by:
Gwendoline Yeo
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Narrated by:
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Gwendoline Yeo
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Rachel Heng
Summary
Always look both ways before you cross the road. Get a 9 to 5 job . Exercise for 30 minutes every day. Do not eat bread. Do not eat sugar. Do yoga. Do meditate. Never raise your voice. Always smile, even if you feel like dying.
What are you doing to help yourself?
What are you doing to show that you're worth the resources?
Some time in the near future, thanks to medical technology HealthTechTM, immortality is now within humanity's grasp. But faced with declining economic productivity, falling birth rates and a severely aging population, the Ministry has become the all-powerful arbiter of how healthcare resources are allocated.
Resources accrue to 'lifers', those predisposed for a life expected to be lived healthily well beyond a hundred years old. Some factors that determine lifer status are genetically incidental - but there are other, more intangible factors that are within individuals' control: the degree to which they are 'life-loving' and self-caring. Non-lifers are known as 'sub-100s': individuals with no potential for longevity and deemed a waste of HealthTechTM resources.
The Suicide Club hasn't always been an activist group. Initially, it was a group of disillusioned lifers, gathering to indulge in forbidden, hedonistic activities: performances of live music, traditional meals of the most artery-clogging kind, irresponsible orgies . . . You name it. Now branded terrorists, anyone found guilty of wanting the right to die as they choose will find themselves fast-tracked to the Third Wave and condemned to immortality. . .
(P)2018 Macmillan Audio
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Critic reviews
Life-affirming . . . "Be careful what you wish for" has never been so chilling, or so gripping (Erin Kelly, author of HE SAID/SHE SAID)
We raced through this addictive take on the modern obsession with youth and perfection
Original and subversive
An intriguing idea in which Heng takes a much-needed swipe at health fascism and our obsession with youth, beauty and superfoods
A complicated and promising debut that spoofs the current health culture craze even as it anticipates its appalling culmination.
Rachel Heng's highly readable debut novel is thought-provoking, moving, worryingly convincing - and ultimately hopeful
A provocative new author. A fascinating debut novel. Read it! (Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach trilogy)
Clever, bold and makes you think about the value of life
Suicide Club bends genre with grace and artistry, delivering us to the outermost reaches of what's familiar and affirming what dares to still exist there: family, friendship, and forgiveness. With superb writing, Rachel Heng has crafted a world inside of a world gone mad, one where love faces its most difficult test. This is an exciting, bold, inventive novel. (Kristen Iskandrian, author of MOTHEREST)
The future is here. Let's welcome one of its stars. Talented and ferociously intelligent, Heng has produced a glittering debut (Joanna Briscoe, author of YOU)
Suicide Club is a bold and brilliant book (Francesca Jakobi, author of BITTER)
Heng expertly threads a ribbon of dread through her glittering vistas and gleaming characters . . . A complicated and promising debut
Glitters, darkly . . . a subversive celebration of life. (Nick Clark Windo)
I always love novels that can combine powerful writing with massive levels of compassion and heart, and SUICIDE CLUB is one such book. Its genre-straddling dark heart can't fail to impress. (James Smythe)
Fans of modern speculative fiction and readers who love stories that warn us to be careful what we wish for will be enthralled by Heng's highly imaginative debut
If the styling is satirical . . . Heng isn't playing for laughs . . . the fascinating and compelling scenario on show here ultimately forces you to question nothing less than the meaning of life
A provocative and engrossing novel, SUICIDE CLUB has plenty to say about our obsession with health fads
What is particularly chilling about SUICIDE CLUB is that the dystopian world it's set in - one obsessed with looks and youth - is not an entirely implausible vision of the future . . . Through crisscrossing stories about love and loss, suffused in some wonderful and heartbreaking prose, she takes the reader on a journey to truly understand the question: who wants to live forever?
A feat of blazing imagination, Rachel Heng's Suicide Club is a thought-provoking look at a near-future society that feels a quarter-turn away from ours. Heng's storytelling gleams, but this novel doesn't shy away from darkness - thank goodness. (Kelly Luce, author of PULL ME UNDER)
The first audio book I have purchased in ages that I would ask for a refund on if I could.
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