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Shipping for this item is free, with delivery taking up to 6 weeks. Please note that once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled. Discover the enchanting world of **Imminence**, a mesmerizing novella by **Mariana Dímopulos**, the **joint winner of the NSW Translation Prize 2021**. First published in 2019 by **Giramondo Publishing**, this **brand new** book invites readers into the intimate yet complex journey of a new mother grappling with her emotions and identity.
Set within the lush, plant-filled confines of a Buenos Aires apartment, the story follows a woman's first encounter with her month-old son, Isaac. The narrative weaves through time, blending present experiences with the shadows of the past, creating a dreamlike atmosphere. **Imminence** effortlessly captures the profound and sometimes unsettling experience of motherhood, where feelings of disconnection intertwine with moments of tenderness.
Dímopulos crafts her tale through overlapping vignettes, enriching the reader's experience with haunting imagery and intricate reflections on life. The narrator navigates her relationships with four male figures—a bookish partner, a competent confidant, a menacing cousin, and her bewildering son—while persistently affirming her identity.
With its delicate balance of vulnerability and strength, **Imminence** explores the labyrinthine depths of the human soul, offering a unique lens on contemporary womanhood. If you seek thought-provoking literature that combines emotional depth with poetic grace, look no further than **Imminence**.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781925336962
Year: 2019
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
Description:
*Joint Winner of the NSW Translation Prize 2021*
We're alone together, for the first time. I have to touch him now. I try stroking a foot, then a shoulder. But no current lifts in me, nothing pulls at my chest they way they said it would.
A new mother holds her month-old son for the first time, but her body betrays her. Disoriented, she trails her taciturn partner around their plant-filled Buenos Aires apartment. Little by little, everything begins to unravel.
Taking place over the course of an evening, Mariana DĂmopulos's mesmerising novella shifts seamlessly between the present and the past. In this dreamlike space, made from overlapping vignettes and fragments, she retraces the mirrored paths of a life filled with visions that swell and recede like rivers: cats, babies, mathematical formulae, distant wars, flooded deltas, hopeless deserts.
The narrator finds herself caught between four male figures — the bookish Pedro, the terse and competent Ivan, a sinister, domineering cousin, and her bewildering infant son Isaac. But as she insists time and again: 'I'm not a woman.'
DimĂłpulos shows her remarkable gift for weaving uncanny details into complex narrative thread. With arresting guile and grace, Imminence explores the dark inner rooms of the human soul.
'Mariana DimĂłpulos's writing, with its delightfully strange perspectives, its selfishness, its iciness and its passion, its power and its vulnerability, seems somehow to condense the poetry of mathematics; Imminence posits an elegant formula for the experience of contemporary womanhood.'
Set within the lush, plant-filled confines of a Buenos Aires apartment, the story follows a woman's first encounter with her month-old son, Isaac. The narrative weaves through time, blending present experiences with the shadows of the past, creating a dreamlike atmosphere. **Imminence** effortlessly captures the profound and sometimes unsettling experience of motherhood, where feelings of disconnection intertwine with moments of tenderness.
Dímopulos crafts her tale through overlapping vignettes, enriching the reader's experience with haunting imagery and intricate reflections on life. The narrator navigates her relationships with four male figures—a bookish partner, a competent confidant, a menacing cousin, and her bewildering son—while persistently affirming her identity.
With its delicate balance of vulnerability and strength, **Imminence** explores the labyrinthine depths of the human soul, offering a unique lens on contemporary womanhood. If you seek thought-provoking literature that combines emotional depth with poetic grace, look no further than **Imminence**.
Note: Shipping for this item is free. Please allow up to 6 weeks for delivery. Once your order is placed, it cannot be cancelled.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781925336962
Year: 2019
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
Description:
*Joint Winner of the NSW Translation Prize 2021*
We're alone together, for the first time. I have to touch him now. I try stroking a foot, then a shoulder. But no current lifts in me, nothing pulls at my chest they way they said it would.
A new mother holds her month-old son for the first time, but her body betrays her. Disoriented, she trails her taciturn partner around their plant-filled Buenos Aires apartment. Little by little, everything begins to unravel.
Taking place over the course of an evening, Mariana DĂmopulos's mesmerising novella shifts seamlessly between the present and the past. In this dreamlike space, made from overlapping vignettes and fragments, she retraces the mirrored paths of a life filled with visions that swell and recede like rivers: cats, babies, mathematical formulae, distant wars, flooded deltas, hopeless deserts.
The narrator finds herself caught between four male figures — the bookish Pedro, the terse and competent Ivan, a sinister, domineering cousin, and her bewildering infant son Isaac. But as she insists time and again: 'I'm not a woman.'
DimĂłpulos shows her remarkable gift for weaving uncanny details into complex narrative thread. With arresting guile and grace, Imminence explores the dark inner rooms of the human soul.
'Mariana DimĂłpulos's writing, with its delightfully strange perspectives, its selfishness, its iciness and its passion, its power and its vulnerability, seems somehow to condense the poetry of mathematics; Imminence posits an elegant formula for the experience of contemporary womanhood.'