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. I Who Have Never Known Men Jacqueline Harpman Published by Vintage Publishing (2019) ISBN 10: 152911179X ISBN 13: 9781529111798 New Paperback / softback Quantity: > 20 Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE (Southport, United Kingdom) Rating Seller Rating: Book Description Paperback / softback. Being half Jewish, the family moved to Casablanca when the Nazis invaded, and returned home after the war. 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. Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929. Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929, and fled to Casablanca with her family during WWII. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. 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.Īs 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. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague. Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. ‘For a very long time, the days went by, each just like the day before, then I began to think, and everything changed’.

I who have never known men