I Who Have Never Known Men (Vintage Editions)

It's timeless, dystopian and thought-provoking. A SciFi story about hope, friendship, loneliness, humanity, survival, curiosity and freedom. The author Jacqueline Harpman wrote this in the ninetees, but this book is entirely timeless. You can draw some parallels because the author fled during World War II and the huts are somewhat similar of concentration camps. I thought this book is going in another direction, but I didn't dislike it. It's interesting that the main character is always kind of anonymous, because you never know her name. She is convinced that she's not entirely human, because she can't remember her childhood and has grown up without touch. It's very cool that she became something like a human clock, counting her heartbeat when there's nothing else to make out time. I wanted to know more about their surroundings, the plot and the Why. Why do they hear birds but there are no other animals? What happened to the guards, they just disappeared. What was the point of the alarm? Why was the main character the only child? Was this a failed experiment to populate a new planet? But maybe the book doesn't need to give answers to every questions, because that's the whole point. It's an open end and you're just as confused as the protagonist