
One Two
Eliane Brum(Author)
AmazonCrossing (Publisher)
Published on 18. November 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
164 pages
978-1-4778-1953-1 (ISBN)
Description
Like so many mothers and daughters, Maria Lucia and Laura have a complex relationship, one steeped in abandonment and trauma. Laura tries to tear herself away from her mother's body through language, because every daughter requires more than one birth. The clash between these two women is tied to words; the pages are their particular battlefield. As they each set out to write their versions of the story, the reader discovers that there are few divisions between their narratives, no distinctions between hate and affection. Subtle differences that distinguish the mother from the daughter can be found in the writing, but they are barely noticeable. Their acts of violence and raw emotional outbursts are mirrored; their truth is irreversibly shared. As mother and daughter, they are given life by virtue of death. By shattering the profound silence of their shared distress, they discover the ties that irrevocably bind them.
One Two is a dramatic and gut-wrenching blurring of reality and fiction. Critically acclaimed upon its release in Brazil, the novel was shortlisted for the Portugal Telecom Prize for Literature and the Sao Paulo Prize for Literature.
One Two is a dramatic and gut-wrenching blurring of reality and fiction. Critically acclaimed upon its release in Brazil, the novel was shortlisted for the Portugal Telecom Prize for Literature and the Sao Paulo Prize for Literature.
Reviews / Votes
"It is not every day one comes across an author such as Eliane, for whom writing is an act of crossing borders, an existential transgression rather than a virtuoso exercise." -O GloboMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Publishing group
Amazon Publishing
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 207 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
204 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4778-1953-1 (9781477819531)
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Persons
Eliane Brum was born in 1966 in the southern Brazilian city of Ijui. She has worked as a journalist, writer, and documentary filmmaker. In more than two decades of reporting, she has won over forty national and international awards in journalism, among them the Premio Rey de Espana and the Inter-American Associated Press Award. In 2008 she received the United Nations Special Press Trophy. She also codirected and cowrote the 2005 documentary film Uma historia severina (Severina's Story), winner of seventeen national and international awards. Eliane Brum currently works as a freelance journalist and writes a column for El Pais. She has published five collections of nonfiction. One Two is her first novel.