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Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes

Jacqueline Harpman (1995)

Subgenre
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingPG-13
Pages208 (Quick Read (<250))
SettingSecondary World
CSM age16+
Goodreads4.07/5 (551287)

Content levels

ViolenceModerate
Sexual contentNone
LanguageMild

Hero archetypes

Outcast / Loner

Heroine archetypes

Amnesiac Heroine

Synopsis

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. 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.

Tags

Literary FictionPost-ApocalypticPhilosophicalPsychological