Reviewed by Christine Sunderland
The year is 2021 and the setting is England. No children have been born since 1995, for man has become infertile.
P.D. James’ novel, The Children of Men, is divided into two parts: Omega and Alpha, the End and the Beginning. We move from a slow, distanced narrative deadened with despair to a vibrant style alive with hope.
The unsympathetic narrator challenges the reader’s attention in the first pages with a sluggish pace. Professor Theodore Faron seems incapable of love; he is selfish and removed from others. Yet as he reflects on his world, a humanity with no future, we see he is an honest protagonist. He admits his flaws. He is capable of penitence, and thus, redemption.
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