Deep Breath - Couverture rigide

Halász, Rita

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1646222687 ISBN 13 : 9781646222681

Editeur : Catapult, 2025

Synopsis

A visceral and stirring novel exploring free will, memory, faith, and constructions of reality and the self, following a woman faced with the question of whether her marriage is abusive, and the life-altering decision of ending it

When we meet Vera, her body and mind are on a precipice. She’s just left her marital home to live with her father after her husband’s violent outbursts reach a breaking point. She’s experiencing sudden losses of consciousness, spells of insomnia and difficulty eating. Over the course of the year that follows, she reignites a high school romance, looks to her divorced parents for guidance, attempts couples therapy, struggles to mother two young daughters, develops a brief cocaine dependency, and tries to rekindle her artistic practice—all while questioning, in Halász’s immediate, intimate prose, the infinite number of choices that led her to this difficult moment. 

Towards the end of the novel, we follow Vera into a surreal funhouse mirror of a courtroom scene, equally comical and horrifying, where she must confront the many conflicting narratives of her marriage and separation and decide which one rings true. 

With the emotional precision and formal elegance reminiscent of Natalia Ginzburg and Elena Ferrante, Halász offers a meditation on agency, subjectivity, motherhood, and the artistic vocation with an ultimately optimistic conclusion: life consists of forward movement, in which the biggest challenge—and privilege—is choice.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

RITA HALÁSZ is a Hungarian writer and art historian. Deep Breath, her debut novel, won the 2021 Margó Prize and was shortlisted for the Libri Literary Prize. 

KRIS(TEN) HERBERT is a fiction writer and translator from the Chicagoland area. After living several years in Budapest, she completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of California-Riverside. She is a 2024-25 Fulbright grantee doing research in Hungarian crime literature at the University of Szeged. Her own work of crime literature is a long-coming work-in-progress.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Catapult
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1646222687
• ISBN 13: 9781646222681
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
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• Personne responsable: non disponible