The Wilderness
- Auteur: Ayşegül Savaş (Turkije)
- Soort boek: non-fictie
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Transit Books
- Verschijnt: 15 oktober 2024
- Omvang: 108 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: $ 17,95
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Aysegul Savas The Wilderness recensie, review en informatie
- “As a personal chronicle, it’s arresting and deep, and makes for a rewarding entry into the growing pantheon of postpartum literature.” (Publishers Weekly)
Flaptekst van het nieuwe boek van Aysegul Savas
A deeply felt chronicle into the wilderness of the first forty days of new motherhood.
In the final weeks of her pregnancy, Ayşegül Savaş becomes fascinated by the mythology around the first forty days after giving birth, and the invisible beings that are said to surround the mother. “In Turkish, we speak of extracting the forty days, like a sort of exorcism. My grandmothers assure me that it will all get better after forty days are out.” A friend lends a book that suggests forty days of rest and fortifying broths and avoiding wind and cold.
In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, forty days are seen as a period of trial and transformation. They are often journeys into the wilderness and “its vast and unruly territories.” When the baby arrives, Savaş charts her own path into the wilderness of new motherhood—a space of contradiction, of chaos and care, mothering and being mothered. “What is the trial of the postpartum crossing?” writes Savaş. “Where will mother and child emerge once they have left the wild?”
In the first work of nonfiction by the author of The Anthropologists, Savaş invites the reader to journey with her into the wild—a place entered after creation, a place you never leave, and a place that, in a sense, never leaves you.
Ayşegül Savaş (Turkije) – Wit is wit
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Uitgever: Uitgeverij Kievenaar
Verschijnt: 20 april 2022