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SUMMARY:BOOK CLUB / MOTHERS DON'T
DESCRIPTION:Meetings are held via Zoom. If you are not currently a BEO Book Club member\, join today for FREE and get the insider’s scoop (like the Zoom details). \n\n\n\n\nJOIN TODAY\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK:The short of it: A contemporary novel originally written in Basque (Amek ez dute)\, now available in English translation. It’s a sharp\, thoughtful exploration of motherhood\, creative ambition\, and the emotional burdens women carry. \n\n\n\nThe longer synopsis: A mother kills her twins. Another woman\, the narrator of this story\, is about to give birth. She is a writer\, and she realizes that she knows the woman who committed the infanticide. An obsession is born. She takes an extended leave\, not for child-rearing\, but to write. To research and write about the hidden truth behind the crime. \n\n\n\nMothers don’t write. Mothers give life. How could a woman be capable of neglecting her children? How could she kill them? Is motherhood a prison? Complete with elements of a traditional thriller\, this is a groundbreaking novel in which the chronicle and the essay converge. Katixa Agirre reflects on the relationship between motherhood and creativity\, in dialogue with writers such as Sylvia Plath and Doris Lessing. Mothers Don’t plumbs the depths of childhood and the lack of protection children face before the law. The result is a disturbing\, original novel in which the author does not offer answers\, but plants contradictions and discoveries. [Amazon] \n\n\n\nA REVIEW:“It might seem that everything has already been said about the experience of motherhood and its darkest reverse sides\, but Mothers don’t shows that there are still many corners to explore\, and it does it with accuracy and intelligence”―Aixa de la Cruz
URL:https://www.basqueeducational.org/event/book-club-mothers-dont/
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SUMMARY:BOOK CLUB / OBABAKOAK
DESCRIPTION:Meetings are held via Zoom. If you are not currently a BEO Book Club member\, join today for FREE and get the insider’s scoop (like the Zoom details). \n\n\n\n\nJOIN TODAY\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK:A modern classic of Basque literature\, Obabakoak is a tapestry of stories set around the fictional and whimsical village of Obaba. Poetic and deeply rooted in Basque life and imagination\, Bernardo Atxaga’s novel is a standard on many bookshelves. \n\n\n\nA REVIEW:Distinctive\, subtle storytelling in a wide-ranging yet curiously cohesive novel\, awarded the Spanish National Prize for Literature\, from Basque writer Atxaga. Effectively combining the style and nuances of an oral tradition with themes exotic and surreal\, Atxaga makes use of a variety of settings–from the streets of Hamburg to the jungles of the Upper Amazon\, as well as the Basque and Spanish countryside–to create his imaginary land of Obaba. In a series of self-contained chapters\, tales of people in varying degrees of psychological distress unfold–such as that of a troubled boy of 14 who has a vision of an enticing young woman in Hamburg\, with whom he begins an intense if brief correspondence only to learn decades later that his father was really the one answering his letters\, as a way of giving him guidance. Substantially more attention is given to the unfortunate narrator of the final section of the story\, whose obsession with the possibility that a small green lizard could enter the human brain through the ear and cause idiocy\, and whose belief that an eccentric schoolmate with a passion for lizards had intentionally reduced another boy to a simpleton by this means years before\, ultimately lead him to suffer the same sad fate. Dark suggestions of suicide and sinister occurrences across centuries mingle with wry\, humorous moments and ironic discussions of literary theory and the value of plagiarism\, yielding a rich concoction of ideas and images. The work of an original voice and a considerable talent: a debut that’s as delightful as it is disturbing\, and full of surprises. — Copyright ©1993\, Kirkus Associates\, LP. All rights reserved.
URL:https://www.basqueeducational.org/event/book-club-obabkoak/
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