I Who Have Never Known Men
By : Jacqueline Harper, Ros Schwartz (Translator) Release Date : 10 May, 2022 Such thoughts ought to make me weep. But tears never come to my eyes... Forty women, armed guards and a bunker. With no sense of time, days warping into nights and no recollection of their lives before, the short book follows the story of the youngest of the women. Through her eyes we explore the indifferent confusion and pain of being in a post-apocalyptic safehouse. Intimacy and dignity are concepts unknown to her. As they traverse the unknown, the women gather heartfelt courage in a bid to survive the most desolate of conditions. All the while, a deafening silence cloaking them. How much suffering can the human spirit take? What is survival, really? What does it mean to be cruel to be kind? Harrowing and gruesome, but n...