Category:
Adults,
General Fiction,
Literature,
Short StoryLanguage:
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Adult Feminism Fiction Literary Fiction Science Fiction Short Stories Speculative FictionWritten by Asja Bakić, Jennifer Zoble (Translator)
Read by Katherine Littrell
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 96 Kbps
Unabridged
In a dystopian world with no men, women are “rehabilitated” at an erotic amusement park. Climate change has caused massive flooding and warming in the Balkans, where one programmer builds a time machine. And a devious reimagining of The Sorrows of Young Werther refocuses to center a sexually adventurous Charlotte.
Asja Bakić deploys the speculative and weird to playfully interrogate conversations around artificial intelligence, gender fluidity, and environmental degradation. As she did in her acclaimed debut Mars, Bakić once again upends her characters’ convictions and identities—and infuses each disorienting universe with sly humor and off-kilter eroticism. Visceral and otherworldly, Sweetlust takes apart human desire and fragility, repeatedly framing pleasure as both inviting and perilous.
Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins
Release date: 03-28-23