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HTML:Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize A profound novel about motherhood, friendship, and the power of community from "one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature" (Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive).
Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura is so determined not to become a mother that she has taken the drastic decision to have her tubes tied. But when she announces this to her friend, she learns that Alina has made the opposite decision and is preparing to have a child of her own.
Alina's pregnancy shakes the women's lives, first creating distance and then a remarkable closeness between them. When Alina's daughter survives childbirth â?? after a diagnosis that predicted the opposite â?? and Laura becomes attached to her neighbor's son, both women are forced to reckon with the complexity of their emotions, their needs, and the needs of the people who are dependent upon them.
In prose that is as gripping as it is insightful, Guadalupe Nettel explores maternal ambivalence with a surgeon's touch, carefully dissecting the contradictions that make up the lived experiences of… (meer)
Two young women, Laura and Alina, know for a fact they don't want children. So Laura, the narrator, has her tubes tied. While Alina enters a relationship, and changes her mind, even to the extent of having fertility treatment when pregnancy just doesn't happen. Life gets in the way. Alina becomes pregnant but before the birth, is given the awful information that her grossly disabled daughter will not live. Laura finds herself becoming involved in the life of the small boy next door, who's angry and neglected: and in the saga of the pigeons who have made a nest and laid eggs in her outdoor space.
Two friends vow to never have children. Laura has surgery to guarantee it. Alina waffles, and some years later is married and wants to. Fertility issues, and then a bad diagnosis. Nettel does a great job of writing the incredibly intense emotions that come with being a parent--the highs everyone hopes for, the lows everyone hopes to avoid. Meanwhile, Laura has been helping her depressed neighbor with her son, and she is shocked at how much she cares for him and likes him.
This is a book I would have been unable to read 20 years ago. It is hard and addresses things no mother really want to think about--until they are forced to.
This is also a fantastically translated title. The original is completely different, but is Spanish word play, with two meanings. Harvey managed to find an equally relevant title that is also wordplay with two meanings. ( )
This was a really enjoyable, thought provoking book, as I had never really thought about not having children, and it is only now that our children are old enough to have children themselves that I think about that choice. Although significantly about the theme of children, this novel packs a lot more stories into its short length, and I really could have continued reading more about the characters. Excellent.
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If you've never wept and want to, have a child. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE, Incarnations of Burned Children
Scendono dai nostri fianchi i lombi di tanti figli segreti. ALDA MERINI, Reato di vita
L'uomo che si ritiene superiore, inferiore o anche uguale a un altro non capisce la realtà . BUDDHA, Il Sutra del diamante
Opdracht
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Alla mia amica Amelia Hinojosa, che con grande generosità mi ha permesso, di raccontare nei particolari la sua storia, concedendomi anche la libertà di inventare quando era necessario.
Eerste woorden
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Guardare un neonato mentre dorme significa contemplare la fragilità dell’essere umano,
Citaten
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[…] tanto il cognome quanto la patria potestà sono ossequi fatti agli uomini una volta che riconoscono i loro figli, quasi come una dote. La cosa certa è che nella nostra società i figli sono assegnati ai ladri in modo facoltativo e alle madri obbligatoriamente.
Esiste una parola per designare chi perde il proprio coniuge, e anche una parola per i figli che restano senza genitori. Ma non ne esiste una per i genitori che perdono i figli. A differenza di altri secoli, quando la mortalità infantile era molto,alta, nella nostra epoca la condizione naturale è che non succeda. È una cosa così temuta, così inaccettabile, che abbiamo deciso di non nominarla.
I buddisti, sempre prudenti nel pronunciarsi su faccende come l’origine della vita o dell’universo che ossessionano altre religioni (e sulle quali, in realtà , nessuno sa niente) sostengono con assoluta convinzione che la coscienza non dipende dal corpo.
[…] la mente ha due risvolti. Uno con il quale affrontiamo la quotidianità , che produce milioni di pensieri, si arena, accelera e attraversa tutti gli stati d’animo; e un altro più profondo o intrinseco, che non può danneggiarsi o subire alterazioni, neppure dopo la nostra morte. […] una specie di natura più profonda della mente o un motore della coscienza.
In un libro bello e terribile intitolato La tregua, Primo Levi sostiene di essere riuscito a sopravvivere alla disumanizzazione di Auschwitz solo grazie a una serie di routine quotidiane che gli ricordavano la sua vita di prima e che gli restituivano la dignità , come lavarsi la barba. La giornata si regge su azioni semplici come queste.
“Penso che a un certo punto tutte noi madri ci rendiamo conto di questa cosa: abbiamo i figli che abbiamo, non quelli che immaginavamo o quelli che ci sarebbe piaciuto avere, ed è con loro che dobbiamo fare i conti.â€
[…] mi sono detta che è vero che esiste il destino, ma c’è anche il libero arbitrio, e consiste nel modo in cui prendiamo le cose che ci tocca vivere.
Laatste woorden
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Andrà come deve andare. Nessuno sfugge a questa cosa.
Fiction.
Literature.
HTML:Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize A profound novel about motherhood, friendship, and the power of community from "one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature" (Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive).
Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura is so determined not to become a mother that she has taken the drastic decision to have her tubes tied. But when she announces this to her friend, she learns that Alina has made the opposite decision and is preparing to have a child of her own.
Alina's pregnancy shakes the women's lives, first creating distance and then a remarkable closeness between them. When Alina's daughter survives childbirth â?? after a diagnosis that predicted the opposite â?? and Laura becomes attached to her neighbor's son, both women are forced to reckon with the complexity of their emotions, their needs, and the needs of the people who are dependent upon them.
In prose that is as gripping as it is insightful, Guadalupe Nettel explores maternal ambivalence with a surgeon's touch, carefully dissecting the contradictions that make up the lived experiences of
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This book is one which looks a the wider definition of parenthood, through the omniscient eye of Laura, who seems to know every intimate detail of Alina's life with her partner Aurelio and daughter Inés, as well as of their childminder who's unable to have children of her own, and of Alina, of her own mother, and her neighbour Doris and son. It examines the emotional conflicts and burdens of motherhood: their overwhelming presence in each woman's life. A startling and forceful story. (