![]() 1-88): In this futuristic fantasy (which is immediately reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale), the nameless narrator passes from her adolescent captivity among women who are kept in. In the beginning, the girl is caged with thirty-nine women in a bleak underground bunker, tended by men guards with a boundless supply of food, water, and electricity. It is a chilling, surreal, speculative fiction as well as a novel of ideas. by Jacqueline Harpman RELEASE DATE: May 1, 1997. Jacqueline Harpman’s I Who Have Never Known Men is a brilliant, spare science fiction novel in which a curious girl asks what remains after everything has been stripped away. Back in print for the first time since 1997, Harpman’s modern classic is an important addition to the growing canon of feminist speculative literature. I Who Have Never Known Men is the first of Jacqueline Harpmans 10 novels to be translated from French. ![]() Informed by her background as a psychoanalyst and her youth in exile, I Who Have Never Known Men is a haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic novel of female friendship and intimacy, and the lengths people will go to maintain their humanity in the face of devastation. ![]() Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929, and fled to Casablanca with her family during WWII. ![]() Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before.Īs 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. Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. ![]()
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