I Who Have Never Known Men HB Vintage Classics

I Who Have Never Known Men is a haunting dystopian novel about forty women imprisoned underground by male guards. After an unexplained escape, the youngest woman narrates their struggle to survive in an empty, unfamiliar world while searching for meaning, companionship, and freedom. Originally published in French in 1995 as Moi qui n’ai pas connu les hommes, the novel explores isolation, female solidarity, memory, identity, and what it means to be human when social rules collapse. The English translation is by Ros Schwartz.