Nine Moons - Gabriela Wiener

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Auteur(s) : Gabriela Wiener

Editeur : Restless Books

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/05/2020

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 240

Expédition : 334

Dimensions : 18.4 x 12.9 x 2.2

ISBN : 9781632062239

Résumé :

From the daring Peruvian essayist and provocateur behind Sexographies comes a fierce and funny exploration of sex, pregnancy, and motherhood that delves headlong into our fraught fascination with human reproduction.

Biographie:

Gabriela Wiener (Lima, 1975) is author of the cr?nicas collections Sexograf?as (Sexographies, Restless Books, 2018), Nueve Lunas, Mozart, la iguana con priapismo y otras historias, Llamada perdida and Nueve Lunas (Nine Moons, Restless Books, 2020). Her work also includes the poetry collection Ejercicios para el endurecimiento del esp?ritu. Her latest book is Dicen de m? (2017). She writes regularly for the newspapers El Pa?s (Spain) and La Rep?blica (Peru). She also writes for several American and European magazines, such as Etiqueta Negra (Peru), Anfibia (Argentina), Corriere della Sera (Italy), XXI (France), and Virginia Quarterly Review (United States). In Madrid, she worked as editor of the Spanish edition of Marie Claire. She left the magazine in 2014 to work on her first novel.

Sommaire:

Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2020

From the daring Peruvian essayist and provocateur behind Sexographies comes a fierce and funny exploration of sex, pregnancy, and motherhood that delves headlong into our fraught fascination with human reproduction.

Women play all the time with the great power that's been conferred upon us: it's fun to think about reproducing. Or not reproducing. Or walking around in a sweet little dress with a round belly underneath that will turn into a baby to cuddle and spoil. When you're fifteen, the idea is fascinating, it attracts you like a piece of chocolate cake. When you're thirty, the possibility attracts you like an abyss.

Gabriela Wiener is not one to shy away from unpleasant truths or to balk at a challenge. She began her writing career by infiltrating Peru's most dangerous prison, going all in at swingers clubs, ingesting ayahuasca in the Amazon jungle. So at 30, when she gets unexpectedly pregnant, she looks forward to the experience the way a mountain climber approaches a precipitous peak.

With a scientist's curiosity and a libertine's unbridled imagination, Wiener hungrily devours every scrap of information and misinformation she encounters during the nine months of her pregnancy. She ponders how pleasure and pain always have something to do with things entering or exiting your body. She laments that manuals for pregnant women don't prepare you for ambushes of lust or that morning sickness is like waking up with a hangover and a guilty conscience all at once. And she tries to navigate the infinity of choices and contradictory demands a pregnant woman confronts, each one amplified to a life-and-death decision.

While pregnant women are still placed on pedestals, or used as political battlegrounds, or made into passive objects of study, Gabriela Wiener defies definition. With unguarded humor and breathtaking directness, Nine Moons questions the dogmas, upends the stereotypes, and embraces all the terror, beauty, and paradoxes of the propagation of the species.