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Mother
‘My mother lingered on the threshold between my life and my death, inhabiting it with the levity and nonchalance that had always marked her treatment of me.’
After going into premature labour, an unnamed protagonist reflects on her troubled relationship with her mother and its role in her traumatic birth experience. Mother takes readers on a journey of motherhood, present and past, weaving gracefully between painful flashbacks, intertextual allusions and heartbreaking descriptions of nurses and doctors fighting to keep the protagonist and her baby alive. All the while the ocean lingers, raising the question: What happened at the beach?
After going into premature labour, an unnamed protagonist reflects on her troubled relationship with her mother and its role in her traumatic birth experience. Mother takes readers on a journey of motherhood, present and past, weaving gracefully between painful flashbacks, intertextual allusions and heartbreaking descriptions of nurses and doctors fighting to keep the protagonist and her baby alive. All the while the ocean lingers, raising the question: What happened at the beach?
256 pages, Paperback
Published June 25, 2026
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Marina Perezagua
24 books56 followersMarina Perezagua (Sevilla, 1978) es escritora y profesora. Licenciada en Historia del Arte por la Universidad de Sevilla, vive fuera de España desde hace muchos años, los últimos quince en Nueva York. Ha dado clases de español y cultura española en Lyon y en diversas universidades privadas y públicas de Nueva York. Ha publicado dos libros de relatos, Criaturas abisales y Leche, éste último traducido al japonés y las novelas Yoro y Don Quijote de Manhattan.
Marina Perezagua is a writer and an open water swimmer. She was born in Seville, Spain. She graduated in Art History from the University of Seville. She obtained her PhD in philology in the United States and later on she became a professor of language, literature, history and Latin American cinema at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Afterwards, she worked for two years at the Instituto Cervantes de Lyon. Today she lives in New York and works as a professor at New York University.
Marina Perezagua is a writer and an open water swimmer. She was born in Seville, Spain. She graduated in Art History from the University of Seville. She obtained her PhD in philology in the United States and later on she became a professor of language, literature, history and Latin American cinema at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Afterwards, she worked for two years at the Instituto Cervantes de Lyon. Today she lives in New York and works as a professor at New York University.
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October 9, 2024
Tengo que empezar diciendo, que esta novela no es una lectura para todos los lectores, solo para ese perfil que busca que su mente se trastoque a cualquier precio, que la dureza de los sucesos traumáticos no le haga vacilar ni el sufrimiento ajeno le haga empatizar tanto como para tener que abandonar.
Si cumples estos requisitos, adelante, esta lectura te conmoverá de manera inigualable, aprenderás sobre ciencia, humanidad, medicina y sobre todo el amor de una madre a una hija.
Si cumples estos requisitos, adelante, esta lectura te conmoverá de manera inigualable, aprenderás sobre ciencia, humanidad, medicina y sobre todo el amor de una madre a una hija.
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October 7, 2024Marina Perezagua siempre, esto es LITERATURA
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