I Who Have Never Known Men
Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic tale
By Jacqueline Harpman
Translated by Ros Schwartz, Introduction by Sophie Mackintosh
Harry Hartog's review
I still think about this story nearly every day! Do you want to walk in the shoes of someone living through an apocalypse? This is as close as you’ll get to the singular experience of being a prisoner who longs for freedom and knowledge; who is granted one, but denied the other. There are so few novels like Harpman’s work - The Left Hand of Darkness is one. They share a thread that examines what it is to be an individual in a community, while always feeling like the ‘other’. This one leaves an indelible mark and has finally been recognised as part of the cannon of women's experiences. - Kelly, Harry Hartog Green Hills
Description
A haunting, heartbreaking tale of female friendship and intimacy that reads like The Handmaid's Tale meets The Road
SISTERHOOD. SECRETS. SURVIVAL.
Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic TikTok sensation.
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 an 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, BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE WATER CURE
- ISBN:
- 9781529111798
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 208
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Vintage Publishing
- Imprint:
- Vintage
- Weight:
- 151 g