I Who Have Never Known Men

Published by Avon Books.

ISBN:
978-0-380-73181-7
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Deep underground, forty 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 …

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Zwei Dinge haben mich gestört: Die zu bequeme Lösung aller Überlebensprobleme (Technik der Zivilisation funktioniert jahrzehntelang ohne jede Wartung weiter), und dass die Protagonistin alles, was die Autorin vermutlich gut findet (Himmel ansehen, weiche Betten, schön eingerichtete Wohnzimmer) ohne jede Eingewöhnung sofort auch gut findet, als seien das Naturkonstanten, unbeeinflussbar durch ein bisher völlig anders verbrachtes Leben. Der Rest war gut.

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