My Father's House by Karmele Jaio

My Father's House by Karmele Jaio

Ismael, a successful novelist, has been suffering from writer's block for two years, trying to get inside his female narrator's head and failing. However, he tells no one about this problem and continues to spend each day in his study, supposedly writing. When his mother is taken into hospital, he is forced to spend time with his father who has the beginnings of dementia. This experience carries him back to a moment in his childhood that has remained hidden away in his memory until then.

Jasone, Ismael's wife, has always been his first reader and editor. As a student, she used to write, but has devoted the last decade of her life to her daughters and to her husband's career. Now that the girls have left home, Jasone finds herself drawn to ideas and causes she believed were the domain of her best friend Libe, as well as to an old flame, who is also her husband's publisher. The rape of a young woman in a nearby town triggers something in Jasone, and she begins spending her nights at her computer writing a novel she never expected to write. When the couple's respective secrets are revealed, everything will change.

With intelligence and wisdom, Karmele Jaio brilliantly dissects the complexities of relationships of all kinds, never coming down on one side, but allowing her characters space to evolve and take up roles of their own making.

Karmele Jaio (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1970) is the author of three books of short stories--Hamabost zauri (Fifteen Wounds, Elkar, 2004), Zu bezain ahul (As Weak as You, Elkar, 2007) and Ez naiz ni (I'm Not Me, Elkar, 2012)--and two novels--Amaren eskuak (Her Mother's Hands, Elkar, 2006) and Musika airean (Music in the Air, Elkar, 2010). Her short stories have been published in many anthologies, including the recent Best European Fiction 2017 anthology.

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ISBN 13	9781915568083
ISBN 10	1915568080
Titel	My Father's House
Autor	Karmele Jaio
Serie	Dedalus Europe
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Dedalus Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2023-08-18
Seitenanzahl	215
Preise	Winner of Basque Literary Prize 2020
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.