Ariana Harwicz Book order

A mother and son inhabit an isolated and increasingly dangerous private world.

Po urodzeniu dziecka młoda kobieta mieszkająca z mężem na odludziu walczy z demonami: samotnością, depresją poporodową, niepokojem o noworodka, nieokiełznaną kobiecością i wymykającym się spod kontroli popędem seksualnym. Podczas bezsennych nocy zastanawia się, czy rodząc dziecko, utraciła samą... číst celé

In Feebleminded, Harwicz drags us to the border between fascination and discomfort as she explores aspects of desire, need and dependency through the dynamics between a mother and her daughter, searching through their respective lives to find meaning and define their own relationship.Written in a wild stream of consciousness narration in the best tradition of Virginia Woolf and Nathalie Sarraute, and embedded in a current trend of elusive violence so ingrained in contemporary Latin American fiction, Feebleminded follows the pair on a roller coaster of extreme emotions and examinations into the biographies of their own bodies where everything – from a childhood without answers to a desolate, loveless present – has been buried.Told through brief but extremely powerful chapters, this short lyrical novel follows Die, My Love as the second part in what Harwicz has termed an ‘involuntary trilogy’. (The third volume is Precoz, 2015). An incredibly insightful interrogation on the human condition, desire and the burden of deep-rooted family mandates.

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018. A manic, bruising stream of conscious portrayal of a mother and wife struggling to maintain both a normal life and her sanity.