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“In a sealed underground cage, thirty-nine women are held captive, watched over by guards. They have no memory of how they arrived, no sense of time, and only faint traces of the lives they once lived. With each passing day beneath the unchanging glare of artificial light, they are left to exist in uncertainty.

Among them sits a young girl—the fortieth prisoner—isolated and different from the rest. As time goes on, she will prove to be the key to their escape and the only hope for survival in the mysterious world that lies beyond their prison.

Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929 and fled to Casablanca with her family during World War II. Drawing from her experiences as both a psychoanalyst and a young exile, *I Who Have Never Known Men* is a powerful and unsettling post-apocalyptic novel exploring female friendship, resilience, and the struggle to hold on to humanity in the face of despair. Now back in print for the first time since 1997, Harpman’s modern classic is a vital addition to the expanding tradition of feminist speculative fiction.”