I Who Have Never Known Men (Collector's Edition)

This collector’s hardcover edition features new cover art and an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado.

Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a vast cage. Guarded and forgotten, they have no memory of how they arrived, no sense of time, and only fragments of the lives they once led. When a young girl—the fortieth prisoner—arrives, her presence begins to unravel the quiet despair of the group. In her isolation lies the possibility of escape, and of confronting the mysterious world waiting above.

Drawing on her experiences as a psychoanalyst and exile, Belgian author Jacqueline Harpman crafts a haunting, post-apocalyptic fable of female resilience, friendship, and the fragile persistence of humanity. I Who Have Never Known Men endures as a modern classic of feminist speculative fiction—eerie, tender, and impossible to forget.