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I Who Have Never Known Men
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  • Published: 16 July 2019
  • ISBN: 9781529111798
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $29.99

I Who Have Never Known Men

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29 Oct 2024
Paperback
16 July 2019
Hardback
28 Oct 2025
EBook
2 May 2019
Audiobook
22 July 2021
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The Handmaid's Tale meets The Road in this haunting, heartbreaking tale of female resilience in a post-apocolyptic world.

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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 an 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.

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  • Published: 16 July 2019
  • ISBN: 9781529111798
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $29.99
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Praise for I Who Have Never Known Men

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

Lucy Scholes, The Times

A vivid evocation of another world, alive with hope and dignity

Megan Hunter, author of The End We Start From

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

The New York Times

It is a novel about community, loneliness, and solitude, about intellectual awakening in impossible situations. It asks... What does it mean to be alive, to learn, to know?

Carmen Maria Machado

A vivid evocation of another world, alive with hope and dignity in the midst of cruelty and alienation... A haunting testimony from an abandoned planet

Megan Hunter

A consistently gripping experience

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