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Body Kintsugi (Paperback)
Senka Maric; Translated by Celia Hawkesworth
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Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with
liquid gold, to highlight and celebrate an object's past. In this
powerful and personal novella, Senka Maric uses the concept of
kintsugi to interrogate ideas of illness, survival and recovery.
Two months after her husband packs his bags and leaves the family
home, the narrator finds a lump in her armpit. It's a discovery
she's been dreading ever since her mother's breast cancer diagnosis
sixteen years earlier, and one that will change her body forever.
Through diagnosis, chemotherapy, and surgery, the narrator returns
to those moments of her girlhood when she learnt to be ashamed of
her sexuality and estranged from her body - the same body that now
threatens to fall apart during her illness. Laced with a drive for
life, sensuality and pleasure, Body Kintsugi is an intimate and
optimistic book about a woman's relationship with her body as it
breaks and is put back together.
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