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The Anthill by Julianne Pachico 12 May, 2021 01:00
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The Anthill by Julianne Pachico is published in hardback by Faber & Faber, priced £12.99 (ebook £8.99. Available May 6
JULIANNE Pachico s The Anthill follows childhood friends born in Medellin, Colombia; Lina is returning after two decades away, while Matty stayed throughout the intervening period of national violence. From the start, their reunion is marked by caginess and deception. Are they hiding from suspicion, or is this just the emotional impact of years apart? The mysteries gradually resolve, but Pachico is intelligent enough not to offer simple explanations. The story flirts with fantasy and horror without ever fully leaving the real world. While the characters emotional breakdowns are traced in all their vivid complexity, the book can also be read as a national parable for Colombia, a country in the throes of the challenging move from brutal civil conflict to a pea
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Bookcase: Reviews include The Anthill by Julianne Pachico and Everybody by Olivia Laing droitwichstandard.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from droitwichstandard.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Everybody:
A Book About Freedom begins in 1999. Aged 22, she saw an advert â âpink, with a hand-drawn border of looping heartsâ â in a herbal pharmacy in Brighton, attributing all kinds of physical symptoms to energy âstuck⦠from past traumasâ and promising that it âcould be loosened and induced to move again by way of body psychotherapyâ.
It led her to a therapist, Anna, who âpractised in a small, soupy room at the top of her houseâ with methods that, to say the least, were idiosyncratic. âSometimes Anna would take a grinning [toy] monkey and clutch it to her chest,â Laing writes, âtalking about herself in the third person, in a high-pitched, lisping voice.â Annaâs eccentric approach to massage relied less on kneading than âseeming instead to directly command muscles to unclenchâ.