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 …
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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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- 917010
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Native Tongue
Paperback, 327 pages
English language
Published July 14, 2000 by The Feminist Press.
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- 978-1-55861-255-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 44270270
Native Tongue
Paperback, 327 pages
English language
Published July 14, 2000 by The Feminist Press.
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- 978-1-55861-255-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 44270270
Native Tongue
Paperback, 1 pages
English language
Published Aug. 1, 1984 by DAW Books.
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- 978-0-88677-459-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 11009559
Native tongue
Paperback, 301 pages
English language
Published July 15, 1985 by The Women's Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7043-3971-2Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 12502758
Native Tongue
Paperback, 327 pages
English language
Published Sept. 1, 2003 by Spinifex Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-876756-05-5Copied ISBN!
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- 285563
Native Tongue
Paperback, 1 pages
English language
Published Aug. 1, 1984 by DAW Books.
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- 978-0-88677-121-8Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 1744474
Native Tongue (Native Tongue, #1)
Paperback, 327 pages
English language
Published Sept. 1, 2003 by Spinifex Press.
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- 978-1-876756-05-5Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 285563
Native tongue
Paperback, 320 pages
English language
Published Dec. 6, 2019 by Gateway.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4732-2756-9Copied ISBN!
Native Tongue
audio cd
Published July 16, 2019 by HighBridge Audio.
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- 978-1-68457-298-4Copied ISBN!
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