سيُمنع كتابي هذا في كثير من الأروقة، وسيُثير النزاع أينما حل، لكنه سيصل إلى عينيك، فلم نعُد في عصر يقدر أيُّ أحدٍ أن يمنع كتابًا ليصل إلى العيون، إذا مسَّت يدُك هذا الكتاب فاعلمْ أنني في قبري؛ فالذي يسبح عكس القطيع يموت. إذا تحدثتَ عني بالشر سيمدحونك على المنابر، وإن تحدثتَ عني بالخير سيلعنونك معي، وقد يبقى جزءٌ فيك يلعنني بعد قراءة هذا الكتاب، لأنه لا يصدقني، انس معتقداتك وكل ما توارثته وأقنعوك أنه صحيح، واقرأ، وستمر الأيام ويأتيك كلامي متحققًا مثل فَلَقِ الصبح
Novel 21 is 21 years of my life that I spent around the world, starting from 1984 until 2020, so I chose a story for each year that is useful to society.
Mario, the geometric painter, returns one day to his apartment in the city of Jaén, which he has shared for six years with his wife, Blanca. He finds that another woman, almost identical in features and gestures, has taken her place. He begins to turn over the memories and scrutinize the evidence, trying to discover the reasons for her absence, or to bring her back again. Somehow. Is Blanca really gone? What do you look for in the worlds you are immersed in and Mario is forbidden from entering?
In this intense and interesting novel, the Spanish writer Antonio Muñoz Molina delves deeply into the relationship of a man and a woman whose destinies intersected before their world began to shake under the influence of differences and the monotony of life. Molina sheds light on the complexity of emotional relationships and the conflicts experienced by couples who love in their partners today what they may hate in them tomorrow...
Marie Noël does not know who her father is, nor does she know why her mother abandoned her immediately after her birth and left her in the care of Ranleys, nor does she know what prompted this mother to send a letter ten years later demanding her daughter.
The girl travels into the unknown, living with an emotionally cold mother, tormented by memories of the past. After she grows up, she goes to Boston to complete her studies, and marries an innovative jazz musician, while the question, “Who am I? And who is my family?” continues to haunt her in all the places she lives, and so she seeks to understand what happened before she was born, but a series of dark secrets... And the elusive facts are faced.
In this novel, which won the Prix Carbet de la Caraibe, Maryse Conde writes a tale of lost love and unwanted motherhood, capturing the voice of the Caribbean diaspora with grace and sweetness.
