Ebook {Epub PDF} I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

I Who Have Never Known Men. Jacqueline Harpman. Random House, May 2, - Fiction - pages. 4 Reviews 4/5(4).  · I who Have Never Known Men PDF By:Jacqueline Harpman Published on by Seven Stories Press. A prize-winning, |womanist| novel--part thriller, part science-fiction fantasy--traces the emotional and sexual awakening of one woman, the youngest of a group imprisoned in a world of men who attempt to dehumanize them. IP. Mass Market Paperback. $ 11 Used from $ Enhance your purchase. A work of fantasy, I Who Have Never Known Men is the haunting and unforgettable account of a near future on a barren earth where women are kept in underground cages guarded by uniformed groups of men. It is narrated by the youngest of the women, the only one with no memory of what the world was like /5().

I Who Have Never Known Men. (2, ratings by Goodreads) Paperback. English. By (author) Jacqueline Harpman, Introduction by Sophie Mackintosh. Share. Discover the haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world. Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. "I felt as if this pain would never be appeased, that it had me in its grip for ever, that it would prevent me from devoting myself to anything else, and that I was allowing it to do so. I think that is what they call being consumed with remorse." ― Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men. Mistress of Silence is being reissued by Vintage Books with the title I Who Have Never Known Men, in the translation by Ros Schwartz, a veteran translator from the French who was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in The novel's premise is simple: in an undefined period in the near future, we meet forty women who are kept prisoners in a cage in an underground bunker.

In she qualified as a psychoanalyst. Harpman wrote over 15 novels and won numerous literary prizes, including the Prix Médicis for Orlanda. I Who Have Never Known Men was her first novel to be translated into English, and was originally published with the title The Mistress of Silence. Harpman died in Jacqueline Harpman. Seven Stories Press, - Fiction - pages. 4 Reviews. A work of. Mass Market Paperback. $ 11 Used from $ Enhance your purchase. A work of fantasy, I Who Have Never Known Men is the haunting and unforgettable account of a near future on a barren earth where women are kept in underground cages guarded by uniformed groups of men. It is narrated by the youngest of the women, the only one with no memory of what the world was like before the cages, who must teach herself, without books or sexual contact, the essential human emotions of longing, loving.