An edition of Native Tongue (1984)

Native tongue

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An edition of Native Tongue (1984)

Native tongue

1st Feminist Press ed.
  • 3.50 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 39 Want to read
  • 4 Currently reading
  • 7 Have read

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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Publisher
The Feminist Press
Language
English
Pages
327

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Native Tongue
Aug 22, 2019, Gateway
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Native Tongue
Jul 16, 2019, HighBridge Audio
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Native Tongue
September 1, 2003, Spinifex Press
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Native tongue
2000, The Feminist Press
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Native tongue
1985, The Women's Press
Paperback in English
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Native Tongue
August 1, 1984, DAW Books, DAW
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Cover of: Native Tongue
Native Tongue
August 7, 1984, DAW Books, Brand: DAW, DAW
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Native Tongue
August 1, 1984, DAW Books
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 326-327).

Published in
New York
Series
[The native tongue trilogy ;
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3555.L42 N38 2000, PS3555.L42N38 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
327 p. ;
Number of pages
327

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6786952M
ISBN 10
1558612556, 1558612467
LCCN
00042958
OCLC/WorldCat
44270270
Library Thing
37925
Goodreads
2839980
885994

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