Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies - Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022

Informationen zum Autor Maddie Mortimer Klappentext ?Original, memorable, shimmering' Sarah Moss?Extraordinary, kaleidoscopic' Daisy JohnsonToday I might trace the rungs of her larynx or tap at her trachea like the bones of a xylophone . . .Something gleeful and malevolent is moving in Lia's body, learning her life from the inside out. A shape-shifter. A disaster tourist. It's travelling down the banks of her canals. It's spreading.When a sudden diagnosis upends Lia's world, the boundaries between her past and her present begin to collapse. Deeply buried secrets stir awake. As the voice prowling in Lia takes hold of her story, and the landscape around becomes indistinguishable from the one within, Lia and her family are faced with some of the hardest questions of all: how can we move on from the events that have shaped us, when our bodies harbour everything? And what does it mean to die with grace, when you're simply not ready to let go?Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is a story of coming of age at the end of a life. Utterly heart-breaking yet darkly funny, Maddie Mortimer's astonishing debut is a symphonic journey through one woman's body: a wild and lyrical celebration of desire, forgiveness and the darkness within us all. Zusammenfassung Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies is about a family coming to terms with the unthinkable: the death of a mother. Playful and funny, profound and heart-breaking, this is a daring debut about motherhood, anatomy, language and the darkness within us all.

A propos de l'auteur

Maddie Mortimer

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Maddie Mortimer
• Edition: Picador Uk
• Langues: Anglais
• Recommandation d'âge: à partir de 18 ans
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 30.03.2023
• EAN: 9781529069389
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-6938-9
• Pages: 448
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 30 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); England, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Medical, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, 21st Century, Coping with death & bereavement, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Coping with cancer, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Coping with / advice about cancer