I who have never known men / Jacqueline Harpman ; translated from the French by Ros Schwartz ; with an afterword by Sophie Mackintosh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harpman, Jacqueline, author.

Contributor:

Schwartz, Ros, translator.

Mackintosh, Sophie, writer of afterword.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Female friendship--Fiction.

Female friendship.

Science fiction, French--20th century.

Science fiction, French.

Speculative fiction.

Detective and mystery stories.

Genre:

Dystopian fiction.

Fantasy fiction.

Fiction.

Detective and mystery fiction.

Physical Description:

173 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Transit Books edition.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : Transit Books, 2022.

Summary:

"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."--Back cover.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781945492600

1945492600

OCLC:

1267686844