I'm copypasting the synopsis I found on wikipedia, because I don't trust my English to be as accurate without spoiling anything :)
Thirty-nine women and a girl are being held prisoner in a cage underground. The guards are all male, and never speak to them. The girl is the only one of the prisoners who has no memory of the outside world; none of them know why they are being held prisoner, or why there is one child among thirty-nine adults. One day, an alarm sounds, and the guards flee; the prisoners are subsequently able to escape. They find themselves on an immense barren plain, with no other people anywhere, and no clue as to what has happened to the world.
... and then they decide to go and look for survivors. It is rather bleak, but the narrator (the girl, or young woman) is just one of the things that make this book unforgettable to me. She's very curious, and keeps a quick, inquisitive mind in spite of the apathy in which the other women wallow, and in spite of their lack of willingness to discuss the past. She wants to understand the world she lives in, but it is so different from what the other women remember that she's unwillingly isolated from them.
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Date: 2012-05-24 05:26 am (UTC)Thirty-nine women and a girl are being held prisoner in a cage underground. The guards are all male, and never speak to them. The girl is the only one of the prisoners who has no memory of the outside world; none of them know why they are being held prisoner, or why there is one child among thirty-nine adults.
One day, an alarm sounds, and the guards flee; the prisoners are subsequently able to escape. They find themselves on an immense barren plain, with no other people anywhere, and no clue as to what has happened to the world.
... and then they decide to go and look for survivors.
It is rather bleak, but the narrator (the girl, or young woman) is just one of the things that make this book unforgettable to me. She's very curious, and keeps a quick, inquisitive mind in spite of the apathy in which the other women wallow, and in spite of their lack of willingness to discuss the past. She wants to understand the world she lives in, but it is so different from what the other women remember that she's unwillingly isolated from them.