Gifts for Mother’s day

by time news

2023-04-29 08:00:00

relations between mothers and children, the maternityis one of the classic themes of the literature which becomes more current than ever at the beginning of each month of May, when the celebration of Mother’s Day approaches.

The following are ten proposals for soap operas that speak of mothers and children:

‘The summer my mother had green eyes’

De Tatiana Tibuleac (Impediment). “That morning when she hated her more than ever, my mother turned thirty-nine. She was short and fat, dumb and ugly. (…). She would have killed her with half a thought.” Despite this rough start, this story is full of poetry. A novel about death, redemption, motherhood and reconciliation.

fierce attachments’

De Vivian Gornick (Sixth floor). Memoirs of this North American author, one of the most recognized voices of feminism. Gornick, a mature woman, walks with her elderly mother through the streets of Manhattan, and in the course of those walks full of reproaches, memories and complicity, she recounts the story of a daughter’s struggle to find her own life. place in the world.

‘You are not like other mothers’

Angelika Schrobsdorff (Peripheral and Errata Naturae). The author reconstructs the real and non-conformist life of her mother, a woman born into a family of the Jewish bourgeoisie in Berlin, freed from the prejudices of her time and eager to marry an artist. She will have three children from three different fathers, true to the two promises she made to herself as a young woman: to live life to the fullest and have a child with every man she loved.

‘Boulder’

By Eva Balthazar (Random House Literature). Carried out by a lonely woman who makes a living as a cook on an old merchant ship in the middle of the ocean until she decides to leave the sea to go live with another woman, Samsa, in Reykjavik, where she will end up getting involved in the assisted pregnancy of a small. A story in which the author explores the limits between sex and love, motherhood and freedom, the animal and the human.

Heart that laughs, heart that cries

By Maryse Conde (Impedimenta).- Halfway between tears and smiles, this novel is the moving memory of the childhood of the Antillean author, alternative Nobel Prize for Literature in 2018.

‘My mother’

De Yasushi Inoue (Sixth floor). Story of the last years of the mother of this Japanese writer, whose senility made her forget her life. Her son delicately collected her decline in emotional pages in which he shows her love for her and the fragility of the human being.

With open heart’

Elvira Lindo (Seix Barral). This novel tells the love story of the author’s parents, a passionate and stormy relationship and tells how his excessive personality and her weak heart marked the pulse of the life of the whole family, in a tribute to the generation of the children of war

‘A mother’

By Alejandro Palomas (Siruela). A 65-year-old mother manages to fulfill her dream of bringing the whole family together for dinner on New Year’s Eve, an intense night, full of secrets and lies, lots of laughter and confessions. She knows it’s time to act and she’s not willing to let anything take her away from her mission.

‘Middle of the Night’

Mayra Montero (Tusquets). One day at the beach in a Biarritz from 1926, Magdalena Laparra takes her two children and enters the sea with the intention of drowning. Her youngest son dies but the 7-year-old girl manages to escape. Many years later, the survivor returns to the place to find answers to what her mother did.

‘Daughters of the North’

Sarah Hall (Publishing Alliance). Considered one of the UK’s best young novelists, this dystopian novel is set in an unknown England, a country nearly flooded, with government-controlled resources, and wars in various parts of the world. In a scenario of precarious and strenuous industrial work, the Authority insists that all women carry contraceptive devices.

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