"I Who Have Never Known Men" - Between Captivity and Infinity

 

This book isn’t for everyone. It won’t tie up loose ends, but those answers aren’t the point anyway. 

The novel has no chapters, and in its 188 pages, you plunge into a place where time isn’t measured as we know it. The story is rich, quick, and deeply thoughtful. What does it offer most? Witness. A strange intimacy. The power of the mind, dignity, resilience.

Some of my favorite quotes are below:

“Perhaps you never have time when you are alone? You only acquire it by watching it go by in others.”

 “For a very long time the days went by, each just like the day before. Then I began to think, and everything changed.”  

 “I am writing… for some unknown reader who will probably never come… But if that person comes… my story added to their mind will become part of their thinking.”