I Who Have Never Known Men empathy It's an invitation to pause

It's an invitation to pause for a moment and enjoy the good things in life

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Erpenbeck describes the path of the two lovers

In the opinion of her superbly gifted translator Michael Hofmann

I Who Have Never Known Men empathy It's an invitation to pause"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." 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 fortya child with no name and no pastshe survives for some purpose long forgotten in a world ravaged and wasted. In this reality where intimacy is forbiddenin the unrelenting sameness of the artificial days and