Book - I Who Have Never Known Men

As the glare of electric light turns day into night and innumerable years roll by, a young woman, the fortieth prisoner, remains alone and rejected in a corner. Soon, she will reveal herself to be the key to the others’ escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them on the surface.

Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929, fleeing to Casablanca with her family during World War II. Informed by her career as a psychoanalyst and her childhood in exile, I Who Have Never Known Men is a haunting and harrowing post-apocalyptic novel, centered on female friendship, intimacy, and the lengths human beings will go to preserve their humanity in the face of destruction. Republished for the first time since 1997, Harpman’s modern classic is an important work in the growing canon of feminist speculative fiction.

Genres: Fiction / Dystopian / Science Fiction / Book Club / Classics / Feminism / Literary Fiction / Fantasy