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  • The Dear Ones

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The Dear Ones

by Berta Dávila.

Translated from Galician by Jacob Rogers.

  • £12.99
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  • Paperback published on 15/06/2023
  • Page count: 192 pages
  • ISBN: 9781739823689
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Quick take

The Dear Ones is a book about a woman who decides to have an abortion five years after having a child. A mother full of guilt, who does not fit into the imposed canon. It is a book in where the protagonist advocates for the freedom of choice: to continue to be herself and, at the same time, to be a mother.

Synopsis

She defends the choice not to procreate again. The idea of guilt in motherhood, the obligation to feel a certain way, the way in which others relate to women's decisions and the loneliness implicit in all the processes that involve taking in emotions that are considered incorrect or atavistic, an enormous isolation that is invisible to others, hover over the pages of the book. It is a story about emotional bonds.

Berta Davila's prose is transparent, simple and accurate. But its skeleton is made up of a temporal braid in which a writer recalls the birth and first months of life of her son just when, five years later, she has decided to have an abortion and not have her second. She do

About the author

Berta Dávila is widely recognized as one of the most critically acclaimed Galician writers at present.

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