Toda escritura es una b squeda, pero s lo algunas son un hallazgo. Como sta de El Libro de Aisha, de Sylvia Aguilar Z leny, dotada de belleza, inteligencia y profunda humanidad. Gabriela Cabez n C mara «El Libro de Aisha documenta las cotidianas y min sculas cat strofes que una ausencia irreparable ocasiona al interior de una familia cuando uno de sus miembros se transforma en un desconocido. En qui n nos convertimos nosotros cuando somos el testigo que sobrevive para contar la historia de c mo perdimos la presencia tan ntima y cercana de una hermana o una hija? La protagonista de esta novela hurga en su pasado y memoria, pero tambi n en la de esos otros que presenciaron c mo su hermana dej de ser su hermana, para poder reconstruir su propia identidad a trav s de una apropiaci n escritural y especular de los rastros que, como migas, Aisha va dejando tras de s en su continua huida. "Hablar de ella es abrir una herida", escribe Aguilar Z leny en esta poderosa y entra able novela h brida que tiende direcciones de sentido hacia lo autobiogr fico y la cr nica, ensamblada a partir de conversaciones, cartas, di logos, correos, apuntes, entrevistas y recortes bibliogr ficos que nos confrontan con la idea del yo y el amor como abismos. Sara UribeENGLISH DESCRIPTION
"All writing is a search, but only some are actual discoveries. Like this one from The Book of Aisha, by Sylvia Aguilar Z leny, endowed with beauty, intelligence, and profound humanity." Gabriela Cabezon Camara "The Book of Aisha documents the daily and miniscule catastrophes that long-lasting absences cause within a family when one of its own becomes a stranger. Who do we become when we are the surviving witness of how we lost the close and intimate presence of a sister or daughter? The protagonist delves into her past and her memory, but also into that of those who witnessed how her sister ceased to be her sister, in order to reconstruct her own identity through a scriptural and specular appropriation of the traces that, as crumbs, Aisha leaves behind in her continued flight. 'To talk about her is to open an old wound, ' writes Aguilar Z leny in this powerful and endearing hybrid novel that tends towards the autobiographical and chronicled report, assembled from conversations, letters, dialogues, emails, notes, interviews, and bibliographic clippings that confront us with the idea of the self and love as abysses." --Sarah Uribe
Format:Paperback
Language:Spanish
ISBN:8439740786
ISBN13:9788439740780
Release Date:June 2022
Publisher:Literatura Random House
Length:168 Pages
Weight:0.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.1" x 8.9"
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