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I Who Have Never Known Men is the first of Jacqueline Harpman's 10 novels to be translated from French. It is a chilling, surreal, speculative fiction as well as a novel of ideas. The story takes place after some unspecified great disaster--pandemic? global warming? nuclear holocaust?--and concerns a group of 40 women kept alive in an underground bunker. The women are watched over by mute, whip-toting male guards. The youngest woman in the group has no memory of life above ground and her elders conceal as much as they reveal about their predisaster lives. I Who Have Never Known Men examines the roles of context and history in making us who we are. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Imagine that you lose everything: your family, your home, even your memory. Could you survive, or, perhaps more importantly, would you want to? French writer Harpman (Orlando, Stock, 1996), a Prix Medicis winner, addresses this question in her new novel. Narrated by a nameless female, the story serves as a backdrop for examining the human condition. The narrator's memories begin with imprisonment in a cage, where she is the only child among 39 women. One day the captives escape, only to spend the rest of their existence wandering across an unknown land. Harpman uses their experience to pose the question, What is it that makes us human? Our ability to love, our need for companionship, our reliance on hope? In fact, all are essential to the human character. Every incident in this riveting narrative is significant. For instance, Harpman uses a scene as simple as the prisoners' mealtime to show that humans rely heavily on companionship. Carefully crafted, this novel is both unusual and thought-provoking. Recommended.?Erin Cassin, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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I Who Have Never Known Men is the first of Jacqueline Harpman's 10 novels to be translated from French. It is a chilling, surreal, speculative fiction as well as a novel of ideas. The story takes place after some unspecified great disaster--pandemic? global warming? nuclear holocaust?--and concerns a group of 40 women kept alive in an underground bunker. The women are watched over by mute, whip-toting male guards. The youngest woman in the group has no memory of life above ground and her elders conceal as much as they reveal about their predisaster lives. I Who Have Never Known Men examines the roles of context and history in making us who we are. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Library Journal
Imagine that you lose everything: your family, your home, even your memory. Could you survive, or, perhaps more importantly, would you want to? French writer Harpman (Orlando, Stock, 1996), a Prix Medicis winner, addresses this question in her new novel. Narrated by a nameless female, the story serves as a backdrop for examining the human condition. The narrator's memories begin with imprisonment in a cage, where she is the only child among 39 women. One day the captives escape, only to spend the rest of their existence wandering across an unknown land. Harpman uses their experience to pose the question, What is it that makes us human? Our ability to love, our need for companionship, our reliance on hope? In fact, all are essential to the human character. Every incident in this riveting narrative is significant. For instance, Harpman uses a scene as simple as the prisoners' mealtime to show that humans rely heavily on companionship. Carefully crafted, this novel is both unusual and thought-provoking. Recommended.?Erin Cassin, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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