Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time--abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. With courage and relentless honesty, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart, and invites us to witness her own marital reckoning--a reckoning in which she confronts both the life she dreamed of and the life she made, and struggles to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become.
Drawing on literature, poetry, philosophy, and theology, Shapiro writes gloriously of the joys and challenges of matrimonial life, in a luminous narrative that unfurls with urgent immediacy and sharp intelligence. Artful, intensely emotional work from one of our finest writers.
A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response.
Here are fifteen invaluable suggestions -compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive- for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality; debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can "allow" women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. It will start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.
Un rev贸lver para salir de noche, escrita por Monika Zgustova, es una obra que sigue su exploraci贸n de la figura femenina en el siglo XX. En esta ocasi贸n, la autora se enfoca en V茅ra Nabokov, la esposa de Vladimir Nabokov, quien desempe帽贸 un papel clave en la vida y el 茅xito del renombrado escritor.
V茅ra Nabokov es retratada como una mujer de gran claridad, que eligi贸 dedicar su vida al triunfo de su esposo. Ella fue la primera en leer los manuscritos de Vladimir, encarg谩ndose de transcribirlos y prepararlos para su publicaci贸n. Adem谩s, V茅ra organiz贸 la vida de la familia Nabokov durante su exilio, viviendo primero en Berl铆n, luego en Par铆s y, finalmente, en Estados Unidos. All铆 convenci贸 a Vladimir de cambiar al ingl茅s y centrarse en la novela, hasta que volvieron a Europa y se establecieron en Suiza.
La novela tambi茅n explora las din谩micas de poder en la relaci贸n de los Nabokov, cuestionando si V茅ra era realmente independiente o si su existencia giraba completamente en torno a su marido. La narrativa se sumerge en las complejas interacciones de Nabokov con otras mujeres y el impacto que tuvieron en su vida y obra, a pesar de los esfuerzos de V茅ra por mantener el control.