"A small miracle . I Who Have Never Known Men is about as heavyhearted as fiction can get."--New York Times "Mesmerizing. The book's austere mystery--the atrophied and gelid world it depicts--provides a richly allusive consideration of human life."--Deborah Eisenberg, New York Review of Books "A consistently gripping experience."TLS "Like Kafka with a dash of Ursula Le Guin, this story is part mystery, part science fiction, and all literature."--Booklist "Reading I Who Have Never Known Men forces the reader to contemplate what an immense privilege it is to be able to read books at all."--Emily Gould, The Cut "[I] couldn't put it down.
It's a deceptively simple but wholly propulsive story that explores the interplay between memory, patriarchy and solidarity."--Laila Lalami, author of The Dream Hotel "Immediately reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale."--Kirkus Reviews "Evocative and thrilling, it's a dystopian modern classic."--Dua Lipa's Service95 Book Club "Harpman says here all there is to say about dignity and the difficulty of remaining human in the face of suffering."--Le Quotidien "It is surprising that a book with the psychological detail of a nightmare elicits in the reader feelings of such profound intensity."--Le Monde "The delirium of I Who Have Never Known Men suggests the work of a feminine Kafka."--Le Nouvel Observateur "[A] riveting narrative. Carefully crafted, this novel is both unusual and thought-provoking.
"--Library Journal "Unlike other science fiction or fantasy novels, this is a universe without an invented order: there is no known infrastructure, no reveal, no men hiding behind a curtain. It is the simplicity of the writing that makes my skin crawl, so eerie in its absences."--Haley Mlotek, Frieze "[An] eerily evocative novel . this intriguingly dark thought experiment told by a compellingly alien voice--dispassionate and unfussy--is strangely fascinating."--Lucy Scholes, The Times "A vivid evocation of another world, alive with hope and dignity in the midst of cruelty and alienation. A haunting testimony from an abandoned planet."--Megan Hunter, author of The End We Start From.