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I Who Have Never Known Men

by Unknown Author

4.4
(8 ratings)
206 pages2021Penguin Random HouseISBN 9781784877200

About this book

<p>A young woman is kept in a cage underground with thirty-nine other females, guarded by armed men who never speak; her crimes unremembered...if indeed there were crimes.</p><p>The youngest of forty--a child with no name and no past--she survives for some purpose long forgotten in a world ravaged and wasted. In this reality where intimacy is forbidden--in the unrelenting sameness of the artificial days and nights--she knows nothing of books and time, of needs and feelings.</p><p>Then everything changes...and nothing changes.</p><p>A young woman who has never known men--a child who knows of no history before the bars and restraints--must now reinvent herself, piece by piece, in a place she has never been...and in the face of the most challenging and terrifying of unknowns: freedom.</p>A young woman is kept in a cage underground with thirty-nine other females, guarded by armed men who never speak; her crimes unremembered...if indeed there were crimes.The youngest of forty--a child with no name and no past--she survives for some purpose long forgotten in a world ravaged and wasted. In this reality where intimacy is forbidden--in the unrelenting sameness of the artificial days and nights--she knows nothing of books and time, of needs and feelings.Then everything changes...and nothing changes.A young woman who has never known men--a child who knows of no history before the bars and restraints--must now reinvent herself, piece by piece, in a place she has never been...and in the face of the most challenging and terrifying of unknowns: freedom.

Publication Details

Publisher
Penguin Random House
Published
2021
Pages
206
ISBN
9781784877200

Community Reviews

capope★★★★★3/19/2026

<div>I’m not someone who struggles to give out five stars to a book I enjoy. In my mind, five stars can mean a lot of different things. For this book, it means ‘Wow’ and ‘I can’t wait to read this again.’ The afterword says this is a book that doesn’t reveal its secrets, even upon rereading, but I feel like I have to try. I know for a fact I didn’t catch every meaningful detail or phrase, so I look forward to the next time I pick it up off my shelf.</div>

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