Mother
Marina Perezagua author Robin Myers translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Akoya Publishing
Publishing:25th Jun '26
£13.99
This title is due to be published on 25th June, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
‘My mother lingered on the threshold between my life and my death, inhabiting it with the levity and nonchalance that had always marked her treatment of me.’
After going into premature labour, an unnamed protagonist reflects on her troubled relationship with her mother and its role in her traumatic birth experience. Mother takes readers on a journey of motherhood, present and past, weaving gracefully between painful flashbacks, intertextual allusions and heartbreaking descriptions of nurses and doctors fighting to keep the protagonist and her baby alive. All the while the ocean lingers, raising the question: What happened at the beach?
‘Marina Perezagua is an exciting new voice, one of the best of the new generation of Spanish writers.’
-- Salman Rushdie‘A thought-provoking novel that both illuminates and obscures the complexity of motherhood and the bonds between mothers and daughters.’
‘The Beach tries to place the reader in the eye of the hurricane of motherhood, and that is what literature often consists of, getting us involved with the great questions and challenges of today from an artistic and metaphorical point of view.’
‘It’s the story of a triple shipwreck, honest, audacious, courageous in the intimacy and everyday nature of what is told, whose umbilical cord is a language that is both stark and tender.’
‘Marina Perezagua is an exciting new voice, one of the best of the new generation of Spanish writers.’
-- Salman RusISBN: 9781836750086
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240 pages