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    Nomansland

    Written by Lesley Hauge

    Narrated by Justine Eyre

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    About this audiobook

    Sometime in the future, after wars and fires have devastated the earth, a lonely, windswept island in the north is populated solely by women. The women have survived against all odds by working hard in their fields. Their lives are tough.

    Among these women is a group of teenage Trackers-expert equestrians and archers-who are in training to protect their shores from the enemy. The enemy, they've been told, is men.

    When these girls come upon a partially buried home from the distant past, they are fascinated by the strange objects-high-heeled shoes, teen magazines, makeup-found there. What are they to make of these mysterious things, which introduce a world they have never known? And what does it mean for their strict society where friendship is forbidden and rules must be obeyed-at all costs?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJul 13, 2010
    ISBN9780307737922
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    Nomansland
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    Lesley Hauge

    Lesley Hauge, author of Nomansland, was born in England and raised in Zimbabwe. She lived in Norway for many years before moving to her current home in Brooklyn, NY.

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    • 3/5
      This book is set in a post-apocalyptic future on Foundland, a windswept island populated solely by women. Keller is being trained in horsemanship and archery to become a tracker, one of those who protect the isolated island shore from their only enemy, mutant men. The harsh, subsidence society forbids friendships and demands absolute obedience. When Keller and fellow trainees discover a partially buried house from the ‘time before’ they are intrigued. What was life like back then? They only have glossy magazines, clothing and the mix of objects in the house to experiment with. This experience only serves to increase questioning of their current society. What will challenging these strict rules bring for the rebellious Keller?The tale is not told as well as it potentially could be and comes across as a bit dry in places. Gender roles and the society that might results from one genders isolation from another is explored. An interesting read, but it had the potential to be better.
    • 3/5
      This book is set in a post-apocalyptic future on Foundland, a windswept island populated solely by women. Keller is being trained in horsemanship and archery to become a tracker, one of those who protect the isolated island shore from their only enemy, mutant men. The harsh, subsidence society forbids friendships and demands absolute obedience. When Keller and fellow trainees discover a partially buried house from the ‘time before’ they are intrigued. What was life like back then? They only have glossy magazines, clothing and the mix of objects in the house to experiment with. This experience only serves to increase questioning of their current society. What will challenging these strict rules bring for the rebellious Keller?The tale is not told as well as it potentially could be and comes across as a bit dry in places. Gender roles and the society that might results from one genders isolation from another is explored. An interesting read, but it had the potential to be better.
    • 3/5
      The entire premise of the novel is intriguing. A world without men, depending on my mood, sounds both horrifying and amazing. As I was reading I just kept thinking, imagine if were were a country run by a dictatorial female leader who just happened to be completely fed up with men and she decided to move us all to a secluded island, banishing men and threatening any who tried to approach. It would be insane.One of the things that I didn't like about this novel was the lack of explanation. I felt like the reader never really got the whole background story, which is often my favorite part of dystopian novels. Finally discovering what cataclysmic error occured that caused this dystopian environment is often the moment that brings the entire novel full circle.Fortunately, there were many aspects of the novel that I loved. First and foremost, the discussion of pop culture by the girls of Nomansland. There confusion over models and present day fashion drove home many interesting points, causing me to look at many modern day practices and ideas in a new light. Even things like birthday cards are foreign to these future girls, especially thing like the signature Love, Dad. Overall, NOMANSLAND was a quick, interesting read, but I have read better YA dystopian novels. If you love dystopian novels, I think this novel is worth a read, but I would wait to buy it.
    • 4/5
      “Nomansland” is a combination of a post-apocalyptic world and “lord of the flies”.After the great Tribulation the world is polluted, contaminated and scarred from many wars and fires. A group of women managed to escape this and formed an isolated society on an island. They have managed to remain isolated hundreds of years into the future. Keller is a Tracker in training. She is training to guard the borders against those who wish to contaminate their society; she is training to protect her society from the enemy, men. In this so called Utopian world, Keller is learning that not everything is as it seems, secrets are being kept and girls are no longer willing to stay in the dark about matters. The past is being explored and the future is now uncertain. I love the fact that this book makes you think. The whole time you are reading this story you wonder “what if”. What if you found evidence of a lost culture and did not know what any of it meant? What if there was an island inhabited completely by women? What if you were in this situation? This story will reach many readers because it makes you expand your boundaries and even makes you a little uncomfortable. It talks about religion, conformity, punishment, obedience and many other interesting and even taboo topics.
    • 3/5
      The year is sometime in the future. The place is Foundland, an island somewhere north. There has been some kind of apocolypse, but either no one knows, or no one is telling, what exactly happened. Foundland is populated by the select few. The females that have not mutated. They are taught to depend on no one but their community. They hunt, farm, and have special trackers to watch and chase off the men that may find their shores.While I found the story interesting, there was a little too much mystery about the circumstances leading up to the community on Foundland. As the young women the story focuses on, Liang and Keller, find a house full of artifacts from the time before (the apocolypse). They are amazed to see photos and make-up and start visiting more and more often, which is strictly forbidden.As the girls try to avoid being caught sneaking away, committee members are looking for the very thing the girls already found. An interesting look into a controlled community, but not enough detail or follow through to really catch my interest.3/5
    • 3/5
      The world that we know it is over. Tribulation has bought devastation leaving no men in the territory Amos lives in. Women have all the skills of men, guarding the boarders of Foundland with crossbows and working forging and building.Some young girls find strange objects; make-up, toys, magazines and high-heel shoes. But this leads to punishment, and the leaders want to keep the girls from finding more.After reading this book I was wondering what the purpose of the book was or where the story was leading. I felt that even though the description was lively, that they characters where lacking dept.
    • 4/5
      After stumbling upon Nomansland during my searching for new books I added it to my Christmas list and then received it as a gift. It had a very interesting concept and a beautiful cover, what can I say, I'm a sucker for a pretty cover. It was well written but it seemed that it took me much longer to read and I never really got into it. I never became invested in the characters like I wanted. Foundland is an interesting and scary world, but the characters living there were somewhat flat to me. I wanted to know more about Laing and Smith and Amos and all of the other women. Some insight was given in the last few pages but not enough to satisfy me. I assume there will be a second in the series or maybe a companion to Nomansland planned for the future based on the final pages. If a companion does come out I will probably read it to see if it gets any better, I would also like to find out what happens to Keller. In the end, it was a cool story and concept but fell short of its potential. I'm sad to say that could not recommend this book until it comes out in paperback, and then only if it has a companion. It is not really worth the read as a stand alone novel, I truly wish it would have been better. Hopefully, there will be more of the story to come and that it will get better with time.
    • 5/5
      I just finished reading Nomansland, by Lesley Hauge. It was incredible. It was unlike anything I've read before. No Vampires, Fairies, Magic -- Nomansland is unique. The story takes place in the future, on a wind-swept island called Foundland, where there are no men. In fact, the women in Foundland are taught that men are the enemy. Women run the island, grow the crops, tend the animals, and defend the island from an enemy that never shows up.As I read this book, I kept waiting for action, maybe an attack, but about 3/4 of the way through, I realized that Nomansland was not meant to have action. It was meant for us to think, to contemplate, to ponder over what we call normal and common in our lives. The main character, Keller, follows all the rules, whatever they may be. She accepts her way of life, even if she's not satisfied in it. When a group of girls, including Keller, finds an underground cavern filled with "smooth glossy, bound books" (magazines), colored paints (make-up), and "shoes that were probably used as weapons" (high-heels) - all things forbidden to them. Keller wonders what made the Old People from the Time Before so... bad. And why do the women and girls of Foundland have to live this way, forbidden from many things that will make them happy? Why live such a dull and colorless life is isolation? Overall, I really liked this book. It wasn't full of action or suspense, but I felt the need to turn the page to find out what happens to Keller, if her questions will be answered, and by whom. I enjoyed the ending as well, which gives new hope to the island of Nomansland, but most of all, to Keller.
    • 4/5
      What would it be like to live in a world without men?Nomansland explores this question, and I have to tell you: Life without men, the way Hauge portrays it, is not sugar and spice and everything nice. In this futuristic dystopia, women in power are ruthless, controlling, and are opposed to anything feminine. Reproduction and relationships have been reduced to pure functionality.Of course, men are not completely gone. How else would the women make children? If this were a world filled with technology, maybe this would be possible, but this futuristic world is back-to-basics. There is little in the way of innovative technology. The women survive by raising animals and produce. Hard labor.And, women have manly names. No names are given with an "e" sound at the end. No Jennies, Susies, Hayleys, Brittanys, etc. (My name, Hattie, would not be acceptable.) Women are not allowed to look at themselves in the mirror, wear makeup, or have relationships with one another. Of course, men are forbidden. There is so much more that I could get into in relation to the plot and characters of this book. I am not sure that it's going to be a series, but I hope it is. I enjoyed this first book for the questions that it raises. What does it mean to be a woman? Are there inalienable characteristics that women possess? I have always thought so, and do even more after reading this book. I've been thinking about this book ever since I finished it. I am a bit baffled by the world created in it and feel like there is room to explain how and why these women have decided to shun their womanly characteristics. It is an entertaining and interesting read. It leaves off with a bit of a cliffhanger, but I hope that is just a set-up for a sequel.
    • 2/5
      I need my dystopian literature to be convincingly plausible, and unfortunately NOMANSLAND didn't do that for me. It's hard to tell the characters apart from one another, and worst of all, it felt like a story written for an audience who would know some of the mysterious objects the girls didn't, and not a reality lived by these characters. It's a tricky business, writing characters who don't know about things that we consider commonplace, and it didn't really work for me here. Combined with the slow pacing and flat characterization, I really couldn't get into this story at all.
    • 4/5
      Imagine a life, sometime in the future, after a nuclear disaster, on an island with no males and you have the setting for Nomansland. A group of women live, according to some very strict, almost ridiculous rules, in self imposed isolation on an island they call Foundland. There are very specific roles for the women, and they start being trained for these roles when they are 9 or 10. Keller is training to be a tracker, which means the chance of her being used for breeding is thankfully very slim. One of her friends, Laing, discovers a forbidden, buried Old Time house and she shares her discovery with the other Trackers. What they should have done was report the find immediately, but they don't tell anyone. Instead they continue to visit the house whenever they can get away from the night guard. Some of the girls become obsessed with using the make up and wearing the high heels and colourful clothing found in the house, and eventually they have a beauty contest, and shortly afterward are caught by the Committee. Keller, meanwhile, escapes notice, or so she thinks. The book has some great twists and turns and Keller isn't sure who to trust especially after a walkabout affords her the opportunity to see something almost unbelievable. Highly recommended for a reader ready to handle a book that might make them question the social organization of our world, and more specifically, the role of women and men, and how those roles developed.I enjoyed the originality of the plot, and the strong character portrayed by Keller. Would not recommend it to just anyone, but definitely have an audience in mind for this one.
    • 2/5
      I didn’t think the story was very interesting. There was no conflict until the last few chapters of the story. The main character was very boring to listen to and I wanted to skip some parts when it was going over her thoughts. At this point, I can’t even remember her name, and I believe that her name wasn’t even mentioned until 3 chapters into the book. I wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone and it’s not because I’m a boy and the book is about a population of women…it just wasn’t interesting enough to talk about.Book Rating: 2/5Book Received From: Holt for ReviewReviewer: Kole