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by Sara Torres (Author)
El esperado debut narrativo de la premiada poeta Sara Torres: una memoria sobre el duelo, el deseo y el amor entre mujeres, madres e hijas.
«Un libro luminoso. Enhebra una búsqueda preciosa para narrar de forma única y diferente todo aquello que nos atraviesa y nos duele . --María Sánchez
ENSGLISH DESCRIPTION The long-awaited narrative debut of award-winning poet Sara Torres: a memoir about mourning, desire and love between women, mothers, and daughters. "A luminous book. It weaves together, in a preciously and uniquely narrative, everything crossing and hurting us." --Maria Sanchez While her mother dies of cancer in a northern city, the protagonist is making love with a woman in a hotel in Barcelona. She will catch a flight to visit her mother the next morning, but she is already late. Shortly after, her lover abruptly and definitively disappears. Her partner returns from London to live with her in a small apartment by the sea, trying to calm and sustain her, while she cries for a mother and longs for a lover. "To love is to love always after my mother. I can't talk to mom, and I can't talk to Her either. My life has been suspended by the interruption of those two conversations." The author catches up on these dialogues, investigating the limits of abandonment and longing, trying to understand a mother who marked the life of her daughter with her overwhelming way of loving. The narrative debut of award-winning poet Sara Torres combines lyricism and honesty to navigate grief, love and desire, her quests and her losses. The result of this journey is a map of the many cracks that make us human; an invitation to caress without fear the scars that make us who we are.
Author Biography
Sara Torres (Gijón, 1991) ganó con su primer libro, La otra genealogía (Ediciones Torremozas), el Premio Nacional de Poesía Gloria Fuertes. Después apareció Conjuros y Cantos, editado por Kriller71. Con La Bella Varsovia ha publicado Phantasmagoria y El ritual del baño. Vinculada a la Universidad de Passau (Alemania) con una beca posdoctoral Alexander von Humboldt, actualmente investiga en torno a las escrituras posdiagnóstico de cáncer. Se doctoró en la Universidad Queen Mary de Londres con una tesis que lleva por título: "The Lesbian Text: Fetish, Fantasy and Queer Becomings" (El texto lesbiano. Fantasía, fetiche y devenires queer). Ha sido profesora asociada en la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona y dirige el seminario Corporalidades en espai crisi. Su trabajo se centra en el análisis del deseo, cuerpo y discurso a través de un aparato crítico feminista e interdisciplinar que entrelaza el psicoanálisis, los nuevos materialismos y los estudios queer.
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