I Who Have Never Known Men
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I Who Have Never Known Men
I Who Have Never Known Men
The ultimate feminist dystopian novel.
Discover the haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world.
Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, these women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollections of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl—the fortieth prisoner—sits alone and outcast in the corner. But soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above.
A haunting post-apocalyptic tale - Guardian
An intriguingly dark thought experiment told by a compellingly alien voice...strangely fascinating - The Times
With an introduction by Sophie Mackintosh.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781784879037
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 July 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Contributors:
- Translated by Ros Schwartz
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 151g
Pages: 208
About the Author
Jacqueline Harpman (Author) Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium in 1929. Being half Jewish, the family fled to Casablanca when the Nazis invaded, and only returned home after the war. After studying French literature she started training to be a doctor, but could not complete her training due to contracting tuberculosis. She turned to writing in 1954 and her first work was published in 1958. In 1980 she qualified as a psychoanalyst. Harpman wrote over 15 novels and won numerous literary prizes, including the Prix Medicis for Orlanda. I Who Have Never Known Men was her first novel to be translated into English, and was originally published with the title The Mistress of Silence
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