The Wilderness
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Akoya Publishing
Publishing:6th Aug '26
£12.99
This title is due to be published on 6th August, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
From the internationally acclaimed author, a deeply personal exploration of the first forty days of motherhood.
'Everywhere in the wilderness I hear the cries of other mothers. I call back to them, asking for help, but sometimes they can’t hear me through their own cries’
A forty-day journey of trial and transformation has meaning in many cultures, including in Savaş’s own. In this candid, tender essay, she charts a path through an unknown landscape – the first forty days of motherhood – in search of herself and the words for what has happened to her, following the birth of her baby.
'As a personal chronicle, it's arresting and deep, and makes for a rewarding entry into the growing pantheon of postpartum literature.'
'Savaş documents the 'messiness and entanglement' of the 40 days after birth, a period so often completely invisible to the outside world.'
-- Cora Currier * Beyond the Motherhood Memoir *'[The postpartum period is] a cloistered time, and Savaş's book is cloistered: an essay in 40 parts, one for each day, but they are not diary entries so much as scenes, memories, or pieces of research, reflections.'
-- Cora Currier * Beyond the Motherhood Memoir *'In her debut work of nonfiction, The Wilderness, the Paris-based Turkish novelist Ayşegül Savaş examines the transformation encountered when giving birth and becoming a mother, looking to the mythic significance of the first forty days . . . Savaş distills and examines this limit-experience in a potent book that just barely surpasses 100 pages.'
-- John VinISBN: 9781836750192
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112 pages