Die My Love [electronic resource]
Ariana Harwicz2017
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Man Booker International Prize 2018 Finalist
In a forgotten patch of French countryside, a woman is battling her demons:
embracing exclusion yet wanting to belong, craving freedom whilst feeling
trapped, yearning for family life but wanting to burn the entire house down.
Given surprising leeway by her family for her increasingly erratic behaviour,
she nevertheless feels ever more stifled and repressed. Motherhood, womanhood,
the banality of love, the terrors of desire, the brutality of 'another person
carrying your heart forever': Die, My Love faces all this with a raw intensity.
It's not a question of if a breaking point will be reached, but rather when, and
how violent a form will it take?
It's impossible to come out unscathed from reading Ariana Harwicz. The language
of Die, My Love cuts like a scalpel even as it attains a kind of cinematic
splendour, evoking the likes of John Cassavetes, David Lynch and John Ford. In a
text that explores the destabilising effects o...
Main title:
Die My Love [electronic resource] / Ariana Harwicz
Author:
Ariana Harwicz, Author
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Charco Press, 2017
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (pages, 123)
Audience:
General / adult
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781999722791
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
534504
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |