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Sleeping Letters (Hardcover)
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Sleeping Letters (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R324
Discovery Miles 3 240
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'This is a beautiful book, a remarkable, cadenced recollection of how
grief lives in the body. It is poetry as a kind of dance. You have to
read it' EDMUND DE WAAL
A unique, intimate and beautiful exploration of grief, loss, healing
and faith, that looks back to the childhood moment when Marie-Elsa R.
Bragg's mother committed suicide
We sat in the kitchen across the small wooden table from each other.
She cried like banks bursting, then silence; like winds blowing through
her shoulders, chest bouncing, then long shallow breaths. She ruptured
and I watched, still, emotionless. ‘You must stop crying.’
When Marie-Elsa R. Bragg was just 6 years old, her mother committed
suicide. Now, many years later, Marie-Elsa returns to that night. Going
back to that moment, inhabiting this defining tragedy, allows for an
exploration of the grief but also brings healing – as well as the
affirmation that it is her experiences as a priest that have carried
her.
In a unique and remarkable mix of prose and poetry, and written partly
as a series of unsent letters to both her mother and father, Sleeping
Letters is a way of connecting to past family, an attempt to reconcile
with loss, as well as a radical exploration of Marie-Elsa’s own faith.
While harrowing and unforgettable, it is also an immensely beautiful
book, with a luminous sense of a daughter’s love.
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