Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
Brand: Bloomsbury USA
Product Description
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize Hot Milk moves gracefully among pathos danger and humor The New York Times. I have been sleuthing my mothers symptoms for as long as I can remember. If I see myself as an unwilling detective with a desire for justice is her illness an unsolved crime If so who is the villain and who is the victim Sofia a young anthropologist has spent much of her life trying to solve the mystery of her mothers unexplainable illness. She is frustrated with Rose and her constant complaints but utterly relieved to be called to abandon her own disappointing fledgling adult life. She and her mother travel to the searing arid coast of southern Spain to see a famous consultanttheir very last chancein the hope that he might cure her unpredictable limb paralysis. But Dr. Gomez has strange methods that seem to have little to do with physical medicine and as the treatment progresses Sofias mothers illness becomes increasingly baffling. Sofias role as detectivetracking her mothers symptoms in an attempt to find the secret motivation for her paindeepens as she discovers her own desires in this transient desert community. Hot Milk is a profound exploration of the sting of sexuality of unspoken female rage of myth and modernity the lure of hypochondria and big pharma and above all the value of experimenting with life of being curious bewildered and vitally alive to the world. show more
Condition : New
Author : Deborah Levy
Weight : 369.48
Publisher : Bloomsbury USA
Language : English
EAN : 9781620406700
ISBN10 : 1620406705
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20190613
Place of Publication : New York United States
Pagination : NA
Dimensions : 140 X 206 X 18mm