I who have never known men
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jacqueline Harpman ; translated from the French by Ros Schwartz.
Edition: A Seven Stories Press 1st ed.
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Description: 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, learning, companionship, and dying.