Lucía Lijtmaer Cautery review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de roman van de Argentijns-Spaanse schrijfster. Op 29 april 2025 verschijnt bij Charco Press de Engelse vertaling van de roman Cauterio van de in Argentinië geboren Spaanse schrijfster Lucía Lijtmaer. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.
Lucía Lijtmaer Cautery review, recensie en informatie
- “Lucía Lijtmaer constructs a story that is not only moving and imaginative but also indispensable.” (Agustín Fernández Mallo, auteur van de Nocilla trilogie)
- “A display of talent and skill. A novel that signals, wounds, accompanies and unsettles.” (El Pais)
Cautery
- Auteur: Lucía Lijtmaer (Argentinië, Spanje)
- Soort boek: Spaanse roman
- Origineel: Cauterio (2022)
- Engelse vertaling: Maureen Shaughnessy
- Uitgever: Charco Press
- Verschijnt: 29 april 2025
- Omvang: 236 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon
Flaptekst van de roman van de Argentijnse schrijfster Lucía Lijtmaer
Fantasies, or are they premonitions, of a great wave, an impending apocalypse, threaten to swamp a young woman in a slowly curdling relationship in Barcelona. From the outside it all looks good: ‘we have friends who design jewellery, who make politically committed electronic art, who are concerned about their mobile devices being monitored, who talk about climate change’. However, her discontent means she’s not living up to her part of the bargain.
Four hundred years earlier, Deborah Moody marries, loses a child, loses her husband, loses everything, and flees England for the Massachusetts Bay Colony. But if relying on a husband proved a mistake, independence doesn’t mean freedom from the dangerous vanities of men. Funny, cutting, and a savage indictment of the cheap consolations of meme-ified faux feminism, misplaced solidarity, and sacrifices for the supposed greater good, Cautery offers us two women (one based on a historical figure, one imagined) who share one final vision of true happiness — burning it down and beginning again.
Lucía Lijtmaer is born in 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She grew up in Barcelona, Spain. She is a writer and cultural critic. She has published the chronicles Quiero los secretos del Pentágono (I Want the Pentagon’s Secrets) (2015), Casi nada que ponerte (Hardly Anything to Wear) (2016) and the essays Yo también soy una chica lista (I’m a Smart Girl, Too) (2017), Cultura en Tensión (Culture in Tension) (2016) and Ofendiditos, la criminalización de la protesta (Offended: the Criminalization of Protest) (2019). She regularly writes for El País , El Periódico de Catalunya, and collaborates with RAC1. She’s the curator of the festival of guerrilla and feminist culture ‘Princesses and DarthVaders’, and together with Isa Calderón, she codirects the cultural podcast ‘Deforme Semanal’ on Radio Primavera Sound, winner of the 2021 Ondas Award for Best Podcast and of the 2022 Ondas Globales Prize for the Podcast.
