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Joanne Anderton, Assistant Researcher, School of Languages and Culture, The University of Queensland

Maria Takolander’s futuristic novel of ‘everyday horrors’ follows a mother’s quest to save her son

Set on an inhospitable future earth, Maria Takolander’s The End of Romance is a violent dystopia – and it’s relatable.

Life is hard here. Humanity clusters in degraded urban settlements, scrounging off what’s left of the old world. The planet’s sick of us, has been made sick by us. Nothing grows except cacti and the air is poisoned by a fog that behaves, sometimes, like it might be sentient.

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