Zambreno, Kate

Book of Mutter (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

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ISBN 13:: 9781584351962
author:: Zambreno, Kate
format:: HardBack
publisher:: Semiotext(e)
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2017
Pages:: 216
Dimensions:: 20.32 x 14.22 x 2.29 centimetres
Genre:: Biography, Personal Memoirs, Fiction & Literature
Condition:: New
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Kate Zambreno's Book of Mutter is a deeply personal and lyrical exploration of memory, identity, and grief. Composed over thirteen years, this work weaves together fragments of the author's life, childhood, and relationships to create a complex and haunting meditation on the power of writing and photography to confront and process sorrow. Through a unique blend of genres, Zambreno draws upon a range of influences to craft a text that is both primal and sculpted. This book is an uncategorizable work, defying easy categorization as memoir, essay, or poetry. Instead, it stands as a testament to the author's searching impulse to inventory family stories and myths in the wake of loss. Book of Mutter is a deeply introspective and often unsettling work, one that seeks its own undoing even as it strives to resurrect and exorcise the past. This book will appeal to readers who appreciate complex, genre-bending works that explore the intersections of memory, identity, and grief.

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