Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within - Couverture rigide

Shafak, Elif

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670022640 ISBN 13 : 9780670022649

Editeur : Viking Adult, 2011

Synopsis

Book by Shafak Elif

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

An acclaimed Turkish novelist's personal account of balancing a writer's life with a mother's life.

After the birth of her first child in 2006, Turkish writer Elif Shafek suffered from postpartum depression that triggered a profound personal crisis. Infused with guilt, anxiety, and bewilderment about whether she could ever be a good mother, Shafak stopped writing and lost her faith in words altogether. In this elegantly written memoir, she retraces her journey from free-spirited, nomadic artist to dedicated by emotionally wrought mother. Identifying a constantly bickering harem of women who live inside of her, each with her own characteristics-the cynical intellectual, the goal-oriented go-getter, the practical-rational, the spiritual, the maternal, and the lustful-she craves harmony, or at least a unifying identity. As she intersperses her own experience with the lives of prominent authors such as Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, Ayn Rand, and Zelda Fitzgerald, Shafak looks for a solution to the inherent conflict between artistic creation and responsible parenting.

With searing emotional honesty and an incisive examination of cultural mores within patriarchal societies, Shafak has rendered an important work about literature, motherhood, and spiritual well-being.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Elif Shafak is the author of several novels and has taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Arizona. Married with two children, Shafak divides her time between London and Istanbul.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Viking Adult
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0670022640
• ISBN 13: 9780670022649
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288