{"title":"Belgian Authors","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"i-who-have-never-known-men-jacqueline-harpman","title":"I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUrsula K. LeGuin meets\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ein a post-apocalyptic modern classic of female friendship and intimacy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDeep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl-the fortieth prisoner-sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929, and fled to Casablanca with her family during WWII. 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Harpman began writing in 1954, and wrote over fifteen novels, winning numerous prizes, including the Prix Medicis ( \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrlanda\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ), the Prix Victor-Rossel ( \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBreve Arcadie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ), among others. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Who Have Never Known Men\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, originally published in French in 1995, was the first of her books to be translated into English.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eROS SCHWARTZ\u003c\/strong\u003e has translated numerous works of fiction and non-fiction from French, including several Georges Simenon titles for Penguin Classics, a new translation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Little Prince\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and, most recently, Mireille Gansel's Translation as Transhumance. The recipient of a number of awards, she was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2009 and received the Institute of Translation and Interpreting's John Sykes Memorial Prize for Excellence in 2017. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"New - Paperback","offer_id":47797461221693,"sku":"","price":26.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/9781945492600_cfl.jpg?v=1706916214"},{"product_id":"we-were-forbidden-jacqueline-harpman","title":"We Were Forbidden - Jacqueline Harpman","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReserve your copy now! Expected release is July 17, 2026. Will ship on or after July 17, 2026. Limited copies available.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eI Who Have Never Known Men\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ecomes a startling new collection of three never-before-translated stories, each plumbing the depths of that most necessary human defiance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWandering the forest in the wake of some unfathomable war, a woman and her fellow survivors are forbidden from leaving its boundaries or pausing in their march through its strange depths.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs part of her rigid shcooling, a teenage girl is barred from questioning the dogma she is taught to believe – her punishment for doing so will be as disturbing as it is disproportiante.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLocked in a loveless marriage, a young woman satisfies her husband’s desires, twice-weekly, as directed. She has not yet thought to pursue her own.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn varying ways, and across varying worlds, each of these women are trapped. Do they have the will to escape?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBRIEF classic novellas and captivating stories, to be read in a single sitting or savoured over days\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e--\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJACQUELINE HARPMAN (1929-2012\u003c\/strong\u003e) was a Belgian author of over fifteen novels. Born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929, she fled to Casablanca with her family during the Second World War. She studied French literature and trained to become a doctor but was unable to continue her medical studies after contracting tuberculosis. 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