02761cam a2200505 i 4500 2698172298 TxAuBib 20260305120000.0 210910s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781945492600 paperback 1945492600 paperback (OCoLC)1267686844 TxAuBib rda eng fre Harpman, Jacqueline, author. Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes English. I who have never known men / Jacqueline Harpman ; translated from the French by Ros Schwartz ; with an afterword by Sophie Mackintosh. First Transit Books edition. Oakland, California : Transit Books, 2022. 173 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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. 20260305. Translated from the original French. Female friendship Fiction. Escapes Fiction. Women prisoners Fiction. Female friendship. fast Friendships. Homosociality. Women's friendships. Escapes. fast Women prisoners. fast Detective and mystery fiction. fast Detective and mystery fiction. fast Dystopian fiction. fast Dystopian fiction. fast Fantasy fiction. fast Fiction. fast Fantasy fiction. fast Schwartz, Ros, translator. Mackintosh, Sophie, writer of afterword.