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Loading... Singer from the Sea (original 1999; edition 2000)by Sheri S. Tepper
Work detailsSinger From The Sea by Sheri S. Tepper (1999)
None. This is one of the strangest books that I've ever read. It's like mixing "Dune," "A Handmaid's Tale," and Fern Gully. It does beat you over the head with it's message, but Tepper creates an engaging and imaginative world. (  ) GraceT | May 14, 2012 |  Genevieve is an aristocrat on a planet where aristocratic women marry later and die early, usually in childbirth or while nursing a baby, although common women often live to eighty. Over the course of the book, she rebels against this fate and together with the commoner she loves manages to piece together the terrible truth, and discovers the role she is destined to play in saving the planet. I never really warmed to Genevieve and didn't think her words and actions always rang true. It was interesting but I didn't like the ending and overall I preferred "Grass" by the same author. (  ) isabelx | Mar 15, 2011 | Another compelling Tepper novel - she delights me to no end with the breadth and depth of her imaginings, and each of her novels is so unlike any of the others. Fantastically engaging story, believably terrible and inhumane characters, multidimensional and developed protagonists, a beautiful and optimistic resolution. (  ) tinLizzy | Sep 9, 2010 | I Adore Sheri Teppar's books, especially this one. Ms. Teppar is clearly writing with an point she wishes to get across about gender and society, nature and humanity. I am not opposed to points, especially when I agree with them and they are so well written and innovativly treated. (  ) dhelmen | Feb 19, 2009 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0380791994, Mass Market Paperback)Sheri S. Tepper has crafted a far-future fantasy that reads like the best of whodunits: murder, religion, treason, a mysterious ailment called batfly fever, interplanetary spies, true love, and planetary consciousness are the strands that make up this colorful tale. She limns the culture of this new world so skillfully that the reader never has cause to doubt its 1000-year history.A nontechnology planet, Haven was seeded by one of the Ark ships that carried humanity away from a dying Earth. Purchased by a consortium of wealthy men who chose peace over progress, the planet and its people appear to be thriving--all except young noblewomen. In the millennium since Haven was settled, it has become a sad truth that these women often die in childbirth or shortly thereafter, while commoners flourish and produce bountiful offspring. Noblewomen are raised to live, marry, and give birth as custom demands, adhering to strict religious and cultural tenets, for they "have been taught that women are happiest in gracious submission to the covenants." Lady Genevieve, motherless from a young age, experiences visions and knows that somehow she is fundamentally different from those around her--but how different she is may surprise even the most experienced Tepper reader. An ancient voice is calling Genevieve to her destiny, although her path continues to be unclear. Together with the gentle Colonel Aufors Leys, she pieces together a horrifying revelation that will change their lives forever--but don't fear: there is good and wonder mixed in here as well. Singer from the Sea begins with a deceptively simple storyline and evolves into an ecofeminist tale of the struggle to save the women of Haven, and indeed the planet itself, from a uniquely hideous end. --Jhana Bach (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:34:52 -0500) No library descriptions found. |
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