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How to Love Your Daughter - A Novel

English · Paperback / Softback

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“A stone-cold masterwork of psychological tension. Its final pages had me holding my breath.” -- Flynn Berry, The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling question: What damage do we do in the blindness of love? Thousands of miles from home, a woman stands on a dark street, peeking through well-lit windows at two little girls. They are the grandchildren she’s never met, daughters of the daughter she has not seen in years. At the center of this mesmerizing story is the woman’s quest to understand how a relationship that began in bliss--a mother besotted with her only child--arrived at a point of such unfathomable distance. Weaving back and forth in time, she unravels memories and long-buried feelings, retracing the infinite acts of parental care, each so mundane and apparently benign, that in ensemble may have undermined what she most treasured. With exquisite psychological precision, Blum traces the seemingly insignificant missteps and deceptions of family life, where it’s possible to cross the line between protectiveness and possession without even seeing it--and uncertain whether, or how, we can find our way back.

About the author










Hila Blum is the author of the Israeli bestsellers The Visit and How to Love Your Daughter, which won the Sapir Prize. She is also a book editor. She lives in Jerusalem, where she was born and raised.

Daniella Zamir is a literary translator of contemporary Israeli fiction. She lives in Tel Aviv.

Product details

Authors Hila Blum, Daniella Zamir
Assisted by Daniella Zamir (Translation)
Publisher Riverhead
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 16.07.2024
 
EAN 9780593539651
ISBN 978-0-593-53965-1
No. of pages 272
Dimensions 129 mm x 201 mm x 15 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / World Literature / Middle East / Israel, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family life fiction / Stories about family

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