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Die My Love (Paperback)
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Die My Love (Paperback)
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Loot Price R294
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Man Booker International Prize 2018 (Longlisted) 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 of passion and its absence, immersed in the
psyche of a female protagonist always on the verge of madness (in
the tradition of Sylvia Plath and Clarice Lispector), Harwicz
moulds language, submitting it to her will in irreverent prose.
Bruising and confrontational, yet anchored in an unapologetic
beauty and lyricism, Die, My Love is a unique reading experience
that quickly becomes addictive.
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