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The Wind That Lays Waste, Almada may have invented an entirely new literary genre, something that could be called Southern Cone Gothic.
Reviewed by David Frier
A new anthology collects a wide range of writing inspired by the Portuguese city, from Fernando Pessoa and José Saramago to authors from former colonies like Kalaf Angelo and Orlanda Amarílis, but it leaves out some key short-story writers.
Reviewed by Craig Epplin
The Spanish author and Man Booker International nominee elides the distance between novel and memoir in a book that confronts the killing of her grandfather by the ETA and her mother s death from cancer.
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EMPTY HOUSES (Daunt Books, £9.99), Mexican writer Brenda Navarro’s first novel, is the devastating story of a mother who loses her small child in a playground somewhere in Mexico and her relentless search to find him.
It is also the story of a working-class woman who has kidnapped the child in order to fulfil her maternal desires and, fittingly, the chapters begin with epigraphs from the work of Polish poet Wisława Szymborska that set the tone for what it is yet to come.
The narrative alternates between the harrowing stories of these two desperate woman as they try to make sense of motherhood, mental and physical abuse and trauma in a novel that questions maternal instincts in patriarchies and the place of women in modern society.
Lily Meyer and Mona Kareem Reflect on Close-Up: An Experiment in Reviewing Translation
Today WWB concludes its series Close-Up: An Experiment in Reviewing Translation, in which Lily Meyer and Mona Kareem seek to develop and practice a translation-centric approach to reviewing works of international literature. In the conversation below, Meyer and Kareem talk with WWB about what they ve learned over the course of the series and the steps their fellow critics can take to engage more effectively with books in translation. Read the most recent installment in the series here.
WWB: During your initial conversation in May, one of the hopes you expressed for this series, Mona, was to examine the game of solutions that comes into sight [when we re talking about translation] the courage to betray, to rewrite, to montage, as well as the confidence to dissect a text, to choose what points of strength and weakness to emphasize or treat. I wonder how the two of you feel this play
Gift of Warmth: Young mom cares for her 3 children, 2 younger brothers
Karen Dandurant, news@seacoastonline.com
SEABROOK – Brianne Walker is 29-years old, a single mom raising five children.
Her parents have substance use disorders, so Walker cares for not only her three children, but two of her younger siblings.
When she came to Rockingham Community Action seeking assistance, it was because she had a $400 outstanding electric bill she couldn’t pay.
RCA paid it, and offered more help.
The Seabrook mom’s story is compelling. She is caring for children from the ages of two to 18, two in elementary school, one in middle school and another in high school. Her three kids, Emelia, 8, Owen 5, and Jeannette, 2 have been joined by Walker’s brothers Jacob, 18 and Robson, 12.
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