Description
A book that will shake your prejudices and certainties — a book that will unsettle you. ***** The grandmother's worsening dementia prompts the main character of the novel, who does not feel like either a man or a woman, to reflect on family history. The more the dementia progresses, the more questions from the past emerge: Why does the narrator have such a negative relationship with their own body? Is it due to some event in childhood? Is it related to a hidden family incest? ***** Finding answers is difficult, as the family has a habit of remaining silent on these topics. At the core of it all is the question of self-determination: How to exist when one's own body is never a given, but must be constantly negotiated? ***** A book of blood, defying style and form, deals with our immaterial heritage, with what belongs to us without our wanting it: stories, gender, identity, traumas, language, class affiliation. De l'Horizon departs from the linear, homogeneous form of family stories and opts for a fluid, flowing form of writing.
Information
Author: de l'Horizon Kim
Publication date: November 16, 2023
Manufacturer: Host - vydavatelství, s. r. o.
Genres: World fiction, Novels, Books, Fiction
Type: Hardcover books
Pages: 300
ISBN/EAN: 9788027516896