Native Tongue
$29.19
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2019
Summary
Set in the twenty-second century after the repeal of the Nineteenth Amendment, the novel reveals a world where women are once again property, denied civil rights, and banned from public life. In this world, Earth’s wealth relies on interplanetary commerce, for which the population depends on linguists, a small, clannish group of families whose women breed and become perfect translators of all the galaxies’ languages. The linguists wield power, but live in isolated compounds, hated by the popu…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473227569 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473227569 |
| Author: | Suzette Haden Elgin |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2019 |
| Weight: | 290g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 26mm |
| Series: | S.F. Masterworks |
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Suzette Haden Elgin’s Native Tongue trilogy, a classic text of angry feminism, is also an exemplary experiment in speculative fiction, deftly and implacably pursuing both a scientific hypothesis and an ideological hypothesis through all their social, moral, and emotional implications - Ursula K. Le Guin
Less well known than the The Handmaid’s Tale but just as apocalyptic in [its] vision … Suzette Haden Elgin’s Native Tongue . . . records female tribulation in a world where … women have no public rights at all. Elgin’s heroines do, however, have one set of weapons - words of their own - New York Times Book ReviewAbout The Author
Suzette Haden Elgin
Suzette Haden Elgin (born Patricia Anne Wilkins; 1936-2015) was an American science fiction author. She founded the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and was considered an important figure in the field of science fiction constructed languages. Elgin was also a linguist; she published non-fiction, of which the best-known is the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense series.
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