I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, Ros Schwartz (translator) each navigates his pain

each navigates his pain

Told through the alternating perspectives of Mahindan

and overserious Aimee

from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to the destruction of Palestine in 1948

And the world around them is changing as the GDR begins to crumble

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, Ros Schwartz (translator) each navigates his pain*Used like new Translated from the French by Ros Schwartz Published by Vintage 2019 Deep underground, forty women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girlthe fortieth prisonersits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show