num_pages: 184
description: A world has been devastated by catastrophe. In a cage underground, a young girl has been held prisoner, along with thirty-nine older women, for as long as she can remember. Denied intimacy, emotion, and a past for her entire life, she is forced to reinvent herself when she and her companions are set free and abandoned suddenly by the silent armed men who guard them. And on a decimated, empty planet, she must confront her lonely destiny, and discover for herself what it means to be human.
language: English
title: The mistress of silence
titlecomplete: The mistress of silence
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, France, Adult, Feminism, Classics, Fantasy, Literary Fiction, Dystopia, Post Apocalyptic
ratings_count: 24258
publisher: Harvill