ISBN: 9781948830409
Editorial: Open Letter
Autor: Skomsvold, Kjersti A.
Año de edición: 2021
N° Paginas: 160
Tipo de pasta: Pasta blanda
Descripción: A young mother speaks to her second born child. Since the drama of childbirth, all feels calm. The world is new and full of surprises, even though dangers lurk behind every corner; a car out of control, disease ever-present in the air, the unforgiving speed of time.She tells of the times before the child was born, when the world felt unsure and enveloped in darkness, of long nights with an older lover, of her writing career and the precariousness of beginning a relationship and then a family with her husband, Bo.A portrait of modern motherhood, The Child is a love story about what it means to be alive and stay alive, no matter how hard the journey. Review “The Child pays close, intelligent attention to motherhood and art. It's written with memorable precision and love, and I was sorry to finish it.”—Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater“I loved this book, as raw and shimmering as the early nights of motherhood; through its poetic fragments and deep thought the wonder, fear and joy of intimacy shine.”—Liz Berry, author of The Republic of Motherhood“An intimate, honest exploration of motherhood, compassionate and beautifully written.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review“Precise and careful, page after page of well-judged, unusual phrases that remain in the mind. . . . Skomsvold writes with empathetic clarity on the sensibility of the artist.”—Irish Times“Bold, witty, and deeply existential, Monsterhuman is a bildungsroman that turns the story of a young woman's chronic fatigue syndrome into an intellectual journey, at once grave and comic.”—Paris Review “A masterwork of control and characterization, Kjersti A. Skomsvold’s novel captures what it means to face one’s own legacy.”—NPR“It is evident, even in translation, that Skomsvold’s mastery of tone is the source of her wisdom, and her power.”—Lauren Genovesi, Gulf Coast About the Author Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold made a sensational debut with The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am, published by Dalkey Press in English. The book won the Vesaas First Book Award, was shortlisted for the IMPAC Prize and has been sold to publishers in more than 25 countries. She is the author of four acclaimed novels, a book of poetry and a children’s book.Martin Aitken is a translator of Scandinavian literature, whose translations include work by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Olga Ravn, and Hanne Ørstavik. He was shortlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award in 2017, was a finalist at the US National Book Awards in 2018, and received the PEN America Translation Prize in 2019. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. It was a new year, a new beginning, and outside the first rain was falling. It felt like a belt tightened around my waist, loosened, then tightened again, all through the night, through the morning, through the day. The rain washed the snow away and the next night I awoke as if by ambush. A thrusting pain in my back, someone punching as I slept, so hard it brought me to my knees, as if I wasn’t there already.Bo went out in the morning and came back from the bakery with a sixty-kroner loaf. I had no idea bread could be that expensive, he said, but if there was ever a time we deserved it I guess it’s now. I held on and held on, soaking up the punches, the minutes ticking, the hours ticking, and there was the moon again, but I didn’t want to go yet. Normally I worried about being late, now about being early. They’d said not to come too early. The sounds inside my body, as if from a tortured animal, escaped from between my lips as the pain gripped me tighter.I clung to the light of the moon, barely able to stand, let alone put one foot in front of the other. Eventually I realized that if I didn’t go now I wouldn’t be able to go at all.I vomited in the taxi, vomited in the waiting room, but all the time I was in the woods, my thoughts beneath a tree, looking up into the branches. Pain tore me up; without pain I was nothing. I had
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