A Frozen Woman
Quotes from the Book
I have searched for my mother's love in all the corners of the world.
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Pain cannot be kept intact, it needs to be “processed,” converted into humor.
31
Where are the eyes of my childhood, those fearful eyes she had thirty years ago, the eyes that made me?
24
To grow old is to fade, to become transparent.
19
All the hardships I have endured were merely rehearsals to prepare me for this devastating pain.
14
As I bend forward to check the safety catch of my mother's wheelchair, she leans over and kisses my hair. How can I survive that kiss, such love, my mother, my mother.
3
The situation is reversed, now she is my little girl. I cannot be her mother.
1
No pensar que podía morirse.
I have searched for my mothers love in all corners of the world
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About Annie Ernaux
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WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE
Written in journal form, Annie Ernaux's account of her mother's steady decline spans a period of nearly three years. When her mother first becomes ill, Ernaux takes her in. Soon, it becomes painfully obvious that professional help is needed. Diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, her mother enters a nursing home, never to leave. As it explores the complexities of death and parent-child role reversal, Ernaux's latest work takes its place on the shelf beside John Bayley's Elegy for Iris and Roger Kamenetz's Terra Infirma. "As revealed by Ernaux, the details of a loved one's deterioration have such emblematic force and terror that the particular becomes universal." - The New York Times Book Review
Book details
- First published
- 1996
- Author
- Annie Ernaux
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Goodreads rating
- 4.00 (6k ratings)
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