{"product_id":"9781925336962","title":"Imminence","description":"Author: Ms Mariana Dimpulos\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781925336962\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Giramondo Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Apr 2019\u003cbr\u003ePages: 176\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Joint Winner of the\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eNSW Translation Prize 2021*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe\u0026amp;#x27;re alone together, for the first time. I have to touch him now. I try stroking a foot, then a shoulder. But no current lifts in me, nothing pulls at my chest they way they said it would.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA new mother holds her month-old son for the first time, but her body betrays her. Disoriented, she trails her taciturn partner around their plant-filled Buenos Aires apartment. Little by little, everything begins to unravel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking place over the course of an evening, Mariana Dmopulos\u0026amp;#x27;s mesmerising novella shifts seamlessly between the present and the past. In this dreamlike space, made from overlapping vignettes and fragments, she retraces the mirrored paths of a life filled with visions that swell and recede like rivers: cats, babies, mathematical formulae, distant wars, flooded deltas, hopeless deserts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe narrator finds herself caught between four male figures - the bookish Pedro, the terse and competent Ivan, a sinister, domineering cousin, and her bewildering infant son Isaac. But as she insists time and again: \u0026amp;#x27;I\u0026amp;#x27;m not a woman.\u0026amp;#x27;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDimpulos shows her remarkable gift for weaving uncanny details into complex narrative thread. With arresting guile and grace, Imminence explores the dark inner rooms of the human soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;Mariana Dimpulos\u0026amp;#x27;s writing, with its delightfully strange perspectives, its selfishness, its iciness and its passion, its power and its vulnerability, seems somehow to condense the poetry of mathematics; Imminence posits an elegant formula for the experience of contemporary womanhood.\u0026amp;#x27; - El Pas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;Her language is at once stark and poetic...there is a strict economy of words that brims with withheld emotion, and it is this constant tension between want and remove that makes this work haunting.\u0026amp;#x27; - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lifted Brow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e (on \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll My Goodbyes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u0026amp;#x27;A marvellously interior novel, unique in its perceptions, that traffics both in the joy of invention and the sorrow of memory.\u0026amp;#x27; -\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46867084443806,"sku":"ADS-9781925336962","price":26.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781925336962.jpg?v=1779429513","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781925336962","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}