I, who know nothing about men

I too once loved, and I too can feel pain. After all, I am human.

Named a BookTok Best Book by Amazon, with an astonishing 570,000 discussions on Goodreads, a classic defined by Gen Z.

A dystopian novel like a thought experiment; a girl explores the meaning of being human in a desolate world.

In an underground cell, a girl and thirty-nine adult women are imprisoned. Under constantly lit electric lights, they lose track of day and night, closely monitored by guards. They have no idea why they are imprisoned, nor can they find any clues. Unlike the other women, the girl's memory began in the cell; she has no fragments of a past life, no education, and no experience of the civilized world.

One day, on an "ordinary day" when everyone was accustomed to being imprisoned until the end of their lives, an alarm suddenly blared, and the guards vanished. The women seized the opportunity to escape. Excitedly, they returned to the surface, hoping to reclaim memories of a past civilization and resume their former lives...

What are the unique characteristics and values of humanity? If a person has no memory and no language to pass on, what does it still mean to be human? If there were no men in the world, how would women recognize themselves, and how would they understand their own bodies?

Through the protagonist's monologue, the book gradually delves into extreme world scenarios and the inner world of contemporary humanity.