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134.117.137.78
Since: Dec, 1969
29th Jan, 2011 07:13:24 PM
Singer from the Sea by Sheri S. Tepper.
jendra
Since: Jul, 2010
30th Jan, 2011 03:39:46 PM
That's it! Thank you!
I'm trying to remember a science fiction novel. It takes place on another planet. There is an organism like a fungus or plant that grows in the desert that extends life. The only way to harvest it is to spill the blood of a woman who has just given birth on to the sand. There is conflict between the desert dwellers and the evil aristocrats (old men who actually kill their wives and daughters to harvest the life extending plant). The desert dwellers protect their woman by threatening to dig the plant up and expose it to the sun thus killing it. Most the story takes place from the view point of a woman who is the daughter of an aristocrat. She doesn't know the dark secret of the nobles and the deaths of pregnant woman are explained away. I'm pretty sure she gets married and has a child. She needs up running away at some point and learns the terrible secret of the nobles. I read this book five or six years ago. Please help!
Edited by jendra