![]() As prisoners in the barracks, the women were forbidden to touch each other. More interesting is her emotional development. ![]() But her insights are neither provocative nor profound, and the authority she assumes rings false. She explores the land, demands that the other women educate her and maintains her curiosity long after her companions have given up. The most enthusiastic of them is the nameless narrator, the youngest member of the group. The women search for answers to explain how and why they came to be imprisoned they remember, painfully but fondly, their past lives. Nonetheless, their new freedom inspires an emotional and intellectual reawakening. ![]() ![]() ![]() It first describes the countless years of the women's imprisonment then is recounts their fortunate escape and slow realization that they are still prisoners, the only survivors on a barren planet they can't flee. An account of a near future on an unknown planet where 40 women are imprisoned in underground barracks guarded by mysterious uniformed men, this novel marks the American debut of a writer the publisher proclaims as a new ""womanist"" voice but who is in fact a veteran French novelist (Orlanda, winner of the 1996 Prix Medicis, etc.). ![]()
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