An edition of Native Tongue (1984)

Native Tongue

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An edition of Native Tongue (1984)

Native Tongue

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Called "fascinating" by the New York Times upon its first publication in 1984, Native Tongue won wide critical praise and cult status, and has often been compared to the futurist fiction of Margaret Atwood. Set in the twenty-second century, the novel tells of a world where women are once again property, denied civil rights and banned from public life. Earth's wealth depends on interplanetary commerce with alien races, and linguists--a small, clannish group of families--have become the ruling elite by controlling all interplanetary communication. Their women are used to breed perfect translators for all the galaxies' languages.

Nazareth Chornyak, the most talented linguist of the family, is exhausted by her constant work translating for trade organizations, supervising the children's language education, running the compound, and caring for the elderly men. She longs to retire to the Barren House, where women past childbearing age knit, chat, and wait to die. What Nazareth comes to discover is that a slow revolution is going on in the Barren Houses: there, word by word, women are creating a language of their own to free them from men's control.

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DAW Books
Pages
1

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Cover of: Native Tongue (The Native Tongue Trilogy)
Native Tongue (The Native Tongue Trilogy)
Jul 23, 2019, The Feminist Press at CUNY
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Native Tongue
Aug 22, 2019, Gateway
paperback
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Native Tongue
Jul 16, 2019, HighBridge Audio
audio cd
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Native Tongue
September 1, 2003, Spinifex Press
Paperback - New Ed edition
Cover of: Native tongue
Native tongue
2000, The Feminist Press
in English - 1st Feminist Press ed.
Cover of: Native tongue
Native tongue
1985, The Women's Press
Paperback in English
Cover of: Native Tongue
Native Tongue
August 1, 1984, DAW Books
Paperback
Cover of: Native Tongue
Native Tongue
August 7, 1984, DAW Books, Brand: DAW, DAW
Paperback
Cover of: Native Tongue
Native Tongue
August 1, 1984, DAW Books, DAW
Paperback in English

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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
1
Dimensions
7 x 5 x 1 inches
Weight
8 ounces

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Open Library
OL8195571M
Internet Archive
nativetongue00suze
ISBN 10
0886771218
ISBN 13
9780886771218
Library Thing
37925
Goodreads
1744474

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