'The best kind of book: the one you didn't know you were craving until it appeared ... self-interrogative, intricately perceptive. I absolutely inhaled it' JIA TOLENTINO
'A very richly interesting exploration of a complex subject. Begona Gomez Urzaiz tells the stories with such intelligence and wit and generosity' TESSA HADLEY
'Fascinating ... I suspect there are many, many other mothers who are going to inhale The Abandoners'OBSERVER
When it comes to children: a man leaves, a woman abandons
Journalist Begona Gomez Urzaiz is fascinated by women who left their children behind to pursue their artistic lives. Women like Ingrid Bergman, Muriel Spark, Doris Lessing and Joni Mitchell.
This book captures those extraordinary stories, along with the realities of women who have no choice but to separate from their families, and the everyday guilt of mothers who dream quietly of freedom.
This is a book about motherhood, selfhood, ambition and creativity. Above all, it captures what our judgement of those women who 'abandon' tells us about our judgement of all women.
'The best book I've read on the implications of motherhood and its opposites after Sheila Heti's Motherhood' CLAUDIA DURASTANTI
Rezensionen / Stimmen
'Fascinating ... I suspect there are many, many other mothers who are going to inhale The Abandoners. I know I did ... So beautifully translated from Spanish by Lizzie Davis that you forget it's translation, this is rich, vivid writing about the eternal push and pull of motherhood ... Few things I have read lately convey so exactly the sense of loving your children so much you can barely breathe, yet sometimes craving escape' Gaby Hinscliff, Observer
'Compelling' Guardian
'The stories are fascinating ... intriguing ... Truly moving' The Times
'One of the liveliest, sharpest and funniest books in an increasingly crowded field ... daring essays that blend cultural criticism, memoir and a smattering of reporting ... a delight for many reasons' Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post
'Insightful ... The book's job isn't to convince readers to forgive these women but to offer, with immersive storytelling, a look into the complicated nature of motherhood, the desire to break free from precarious relationships, and the paradoxes of modern feminism' OPRAH DAILY
'The best kind of book: the one you didn't know you were craving until it appeared ... self-interrogative, intricately perceptive. I absolutely inhaled it' JIA TOLENTINO, author of TRICK MIRROR
'A very richly interesting exploration of a complex subject. Begona Gomez Urzaiz tells the stories of all these different women with such intelligence and wit and generosity' TESSA HADLEY, author of THE PAST
'Perceptive...daring' LITERARY REVIEW
'The best book I've read on the implications of motherhood and its opposites after Sheila Heti's Motherhood' CLAUDIA DURASTANTI, author of STRANGERS I KNOW
'Anyone who has ever judged a mother or been judged for being one will benefit from reading this book ... This generous and rigorous work seamlessly connects real and fictional women, while offering an expansive view of a sensitive topic' MICHELE FILGATE, author of WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON'T TALK ABOUT
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Höhe: 195 mm
Breite: 125 mm
Dicke: 21 mm
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978-0-00-865611-9 (9780008656119)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Begona Gomez Urzaiz is a freelance journalist based in Barcelona. She has published works in El Pais, La Vanguardia, the Spanish editions of Vogue, Vanity Fair and several others. She co-presents a podcast called Amiga Date Cuenta and teaches Literary Journalism on a Master's program at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. The Abandoners is her first book.
