I Who Have Never Known Men (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
208
Utgivningsdatum
2021-06-03
Förlag
Vintage Classics
Översättare
Ros Schwartz
Originalspråk
French
Dimensioner
178 x 110 x 15 mm
Vikt
141 g
ISBN
9781784877200

I Who Have Never Known Men

Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic tale

av Jacqueline Harpman
Häftad,  Engelska, 2021-06-03
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Discover the haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world. 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
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A novel that takes you into philosophically interesting territory this [is a] intriguingly dark thought experiment told by a compellingly alien voice dispassionate and unfussy is strangely fascinating * The Times * A vivid evocation of another world, alive with hope and dignity A bleak but fascinating postapocalyptic novel all the loneliness and oblivion of a deserted world won't stop us from following the narrator as far as she can go

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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 Mdicis 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

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