Aysegül Savas

The Wilderness (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A deeply felt chronicle into the wilderness of the first forty days of new motherhood.

In the final weeks of her pregnancy, Aysegül Savas becomes fascinated by the mythology around the first forty days after giving birth, and the invisible beings that are said to surround the mother. In Turkish, we speak of extracting the forty days, like a sort of exorcism. My grandmothers assure me that it will all get better after forty days are out. A friend lends a book that suggests forty days of rest and fortifying broths and avoiding wind and cold.

In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, forty days are seen as a period of trial and transformation. They are often journeys into the wilderness and its vast and unruly territories. When the baby arrives, Savas charts her own path into the wilderness of new motherhooda space of contradiction, of chaos and care, mothering and being mothered. What is the trial of the postpartum crossing? writes Savas. Where will mother and child emerge once they have left the wild?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Transit Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798893380125
• Artikelnr.: 72288517

Autorenporträt

Aysegül Savas is the author of the acclaimed novels Walking on the Ceiling, White on White, and, most recently, The Anthropologists. Her work has been translated into six languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, and elsewhere. She lives in Paris.