I Who Have Never Known Men – Jacqueline Harpman (Hardcover)

Description

Thirty-nine women live in an underground cage, watched over by silent guards. None of them remembers how they got there, they have no way of measuring time, and their memories of life before are hazy. Apart from them, in a corner, sits a girl: the fortieth prisoner, younger than the rest and treated as an outsider.

When a chance comes to escape, it is this girl who leads the women up into a world that may have been abandoned, or ruined by some catastrophe no one can explain. Jacqueline Harpman, born in Belgium in 1929, wrote this spare and haunting novel about survival, friendship and what it means to be human when everything familiar is gone. This edition brings the cult classic back into print.