Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Dundurn : Made available through hoopla, 1999
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781554885725 (electronic bk.) MWT11808541, 1554885728 (electronic bk.) 11808541
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Memoria tells the seemingly ordinary story of a woman overwhelmed by grief when her lover abandons her. The loss opens an old wound: some 20 years ago Emma's teenage sister vanished without a trace. Soon Emma will meet another man, but the return to joy is painfully slow. Rarely has the loss of love, as well as the subtle dislocation of a family hit by tragedy, been evoked more poignantly than in this luminous novel. In Memoria's multi-layered narrative, the reader is irresistibly drawn into the slow reconstruction of Emma's outer and inner world, a world of dizzying sensuality, deep sadness, bewitchingly beautiful images, and, ultimately, "the small circle of new beginnings."
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