Name: I Who Have Never Known Men
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Author: Jacqueline Harpman
ISBN: 9781945492600

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Physical Book

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Epilogue by

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Publisher

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1x13x1.5 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9781945492600

Synopsis "I Who Have Never Known Men"

Ursula K. LeGuin meets The Road in a post-apocalyptic modern classic of female friendship and intimacy.Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. 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. 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. Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929, and fled to Casablanca with her family during WWII. 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. 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.

Jacqueline Harpman

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Jacqueline Harpman (Etterbeek, Brussels, 5 July 1929 - 24 May 2012) was a Belgian novelist and psychoanalyst of Jewish origin. During World War II, her family took refuge in Casablanca to escape Nazi persecution. After the war, they returned to Belgium, where Harpman studied French literature at the University of Brussels. She began medical studies, but abandoned them due to tuberculosis. Among her most notable works are "I Who Have Never Known Men" (2021), "Orlanda" (1996), awarded the Médicis Prize, and "The Beach at Ostend". Her novels, written in French, explore themes of identity and human existence.

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