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On A Woman's Madness

Longlisted For The International Booker Prize 2025

de Astrid Roemer
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idioma: inglês
Editor: Tilted Axis Press, outubro de 2024 ‧
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This classic of queer literature – as electrifying today as it was when it first appeared in 1982 – tells the story of a courageous Black woman trying to live a life of her choosing.

When Noenka’s abusive husband of just nine days refuses her request for divorce, she flees her hometown in Suriname, on South America’s tropical northeastern coast, for the capital city of Paramaribo. Unsettled and unsupported, her life in this new place is illuminated by romance and new freedoms, but also forever haunted by her past and society’s expectations.

Strikingly translated by Lucy Scott, Astrid Roemer’s classic queer novel is a tentpole of European and post-colonial literature. And amid tales of plantation-dwelling snakes, rare orchids, and star-crossed lovers, it is also a blistering meditation on the cruelties we inflict on those who disobey. Roemer, the first Surinamese winner of the prestigious Dutch Literature Prize, carves out postcolonial Suriname in barbed, resonant fragments. Who is Noenka? Roemer asks us. ‘I’m Noenka,’ she responds resolutely, ‘which means Never Again.’

On A Woman's Madness

Longlisted For The International Booker Prize 2025

de Astrid Roemer

Propriedade Descrição
ISBN: 9781917126076
Editor: Tilted Axis Press
Data de Lançamento: outubro de 2024
Idioma: Inglês
Dimensões: 128 x 199 x 17 mm
Encadernação: Capa mole
Páginas: 284
Tipo de produto: Livro
Classificação Temática: Livros em Inglês > Literatura > Romance
EAN: 9781917126076

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