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Lädt ... Warme melk (2016)
Werk-InformationenHeisse Milch von Deborah Levy (2016)
  
Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  Quizlitbooks | Apr 20, 2024 |    ) Ellen-Simon | Mar 22, 2024 | Hot Milk is about a young woman, Sophia, and her ailing mother, Rose, as they travel to southern Spain to seek treatment. Their relationship, and every other relationship presented in the novel, are all dysfunctional, bordering on toxic. It is a novel about self-discovery, acceptance of self and family, and taking charge of one's own life. I found the writing to be very good, but the characters didn't resonate with me. I didn't identify with, or even like, any of them. The book had a strange vibe about it, almost surreal, helped along by the extreme weather and scenery of southern Spain. (  ) technodiabla | Jan 3, 2024 | I could not get into this book at all. It's a litany of various relationships Sofia has with women, men, the doctor, the nurse, her mother, her father and her step-mother, with continual false starts. Just as you think Levy is about to take Sofia somewhere, somebody walks into the scene, distracts matters, the plot is derailed and the reader left dangling again. Levy forces the issue at the end and opts for a melodramatic finish, but there is still so much left unresolved that the reader can only be left unsatisfied. (  ) gjky | Apr 9, 2023 |  ) tanyaferrell | Apr 7, 2023 |
 The reader becomes as unsettled as Sofia through Levy's provocative, seemingly haphazard mixing up of tenses, occasional blurring of points of view; grammar necessarily shatters when Rose and Sofia gaze newly at each other, try to break old patterns of misunderstanding, to speak truthfully. The difficult, ambivalent, precious mother-daughter relationship forms the core of this beautiful, clever novel. Hot Milk is a powerful novel of the interior life, which Levy creates with a vividness that recalls Virginia Woolf. The sense of Sofia’s life with her mother (or against her mother) is built through an accumulation of detail, a constellation of symbols and narrative bursts. But like a medusa, this novel has a transfixing gaze and a terrible sting that burns long after the final page is turned. AuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige Auswahlen
"I have been sleuthing my mother's 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 mother's 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 consultant--their very last chance--in 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, Sofia's mother's illness becomes increasingly baffling. Sophia's role as detective--tracking her mother's symptoms in an attempt to find the secret motivation for her pain--deepens 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"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Through the opposing figures of mother and daughter, Deborah Levy explores the strange and monstrous nature of womanhood. Dreamlike and utterly compulsive, Hot Milk is a delirious fairy tale of feminine potency, a story both modern and timeless.
Check out the article I wrote recently on Deborah Levy
https://quizlit.org/deborah-levy-the-woman-who-sees-everything (