Our Missing Hearts: Nightmarish tale where Asians become scapegoats for all US ills
In Celeste Ng’s tense dystopian novel, which portrays a world not unlike our own but in which Asians are subject to extreme racism and children removed from their families, it is hard to miss the references to recent events and to the words of a former US president
Classic dystopian novels are normally inspired by the most egregious elements of society and imagine dark and twisted futures in which they are magnified. In 1984, George Orwell modelled his totalitarian world, in which ordinary people are subject to mass surveillance, on the authoritarian states of Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany.
Aldous Huxley took inspiration from the class system in Britain when creating his “negative utopia” where citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social ...
