Jacqueline Harpmann - I Who Have Never Known Men (tr. Ros Schwartz)
What an absolutely extraordinary novel.
40 women are held captive in a cage monitored by unspeaking guards who never interact with them, until one day a siren sounds, the guards disappear, and the women are left free to explore...
What an absolutely extraordinary novel.
40 women are held captive in a cage monitored by unspeaking guards who never interact with them, until one day a siren sounds, the guards disappear, and the women are left free to explore...
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It's an incredible story about what it means to be human and what happens when the things that make us just that don't exist. Things like change, the unexpected, possibility, love, touch.
Unlike any other post-apocalyptic novel I've ever read (if...
It takes the usual tropes of limited resources and threat from other people or things, and removes them asking what would be left in the crushing similarity of everyday all the way to death.
Brilliant.