Her world was absurd...
Written: Dec 13 '00
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Pros: very thought-provoking
Cons: if you like everything to be neatly explained by the end, you'll be disappointed.
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| Pangloss's Full Review: I Who Have Never Known Men Books |
Imagine being a girl, growing up in a cage in a bunker underground, constantly surrounded by 39 older women whom you could never touch. You could never know why you were there or even what your life was like before you were put there. This is the memoirs of just such a girl, who never got a name, and whose whole life was a huge, absurd riddle. It follows her life as she goes from being an angry child, to an adult and a leader, and finally, to an old and wrinkled woman, alone with her few books and her cancer. She lived her whole life without knowing what love, happiness, and sadness were, until the very end.
This is a really fascinating book that explores a life which I can't even imagine living. It tells about how the girl learns to tell herself stories, learns to tell time, and explores the strange world that she lives in. There are many questions in the book that never get answered, but that's part of the girl's life, and so it should be a part of the book.
This book is written as the narrative of an old woman reflecting back on her life. It's about 200 pages long, and there aren't any chapter breaks. So, if you rely on them to be stopping points, don't start this book late in the night. I definitely recommend the book to anybody who likes this sort of thing.
Recommended:
Yes
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