I Who Have Never Known Men

Jacqueline Harpman, Ros Schwartz, Sophie Mackintosh

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RANDOM HOUSE UK LTD
16 July 2019

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Science fiction; Dystopia

A haunting, heartbreaking tale of female friendship and intimacy that reads like The Handmaid's Tale meets The Road

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Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus?

Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, 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.

Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. The woman who will never know men.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, MAN BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE WATER CURE

By: Jacqueline Harpman
Introduction by: Sophie Mackintosh
Translated by: Ros Schwartz
Imprint: RANDOM HOUSE UK LTD
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 151g
ISBN: 9781529111798
ISBN 10: 152911179X
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 16 July 2019
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Reviews for I Who Have Never Known Men

A vivid evocation of another world, alive with hope and dignity in the midst of cruelty and alienation... A haunting testimony from an abandoned planet -- Megan Hunter