I Who Have Never Known Men

Discover the TikTok sensation from the publisher of The Handmaid''s Tale, now available as a mesmerising hardback edition. Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus? Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, 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. The woman who will never know men. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, MAN BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE WATER CURE

About the author

Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium in 1929. Being half Jewish, the family fled to Casablanca when the Nazis invaded, and only returned home after the war. After studying French literature she started training to be a doctor, but could not complete her training due to contracting tuberculosis. She turned to writing in 1954 and her first work was published in 1958. In 1980 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

Product details

• Authors: Jacqueline Harpman, Harpman Jacqueline
• Assisted by: Ros Schwartz (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 03.07.2025
• EAN: 9781529954463
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-5446-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 204 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Vintage Quarterbound Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Science Fiction, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Dystopian, FICTION / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Feminist, Science fiction: apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic, Dystopian and utopian fiction, FICTION / World Literature / Europe (General), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary