Iman Mersal Motherhood and Its Ghosts review, recensie en informatie memoir over haar moeder van de Egyptische schrijfster. Op 13 mei 2025 verschijnt bij Transit Books de Engelse vertaling van het boek over haar moeder van de uit Egypte afkomstige schrijfster Iman Mersal. Hier lees je informatie van de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling is niet verkrijgbaar.
Iman Mersal Motherhood and Its Ghosts review en recensie
- “A searching, intimate, and captivating volume that deserves a place among the best writing and thinking about motherhood.” (Pierce Alquist, Book Riot)
- “Gracefully written…[Mersal] creates unexpected meaning from interwoven timelines.” (Kirkus Reviews)
Motherhood and Its Ghosts
- Auteur: Iman Mersal (Egypte)
- Soort boek: memoir
- Engelse vertaling: Robin Moger
- Uitgever: Transit Books Undelivered Lectures
- Verschijnt: 13 mei 2025
- Omvang: 158 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback
- Prijs: $ 17,95
- Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de memoir over haar moeder van Iman Mersal
Iman Mersal has only one photograph of her mother, who died giving birth at age twenty-seven. But the woman portrayed in it strikes her as very unlike the one in her fleeting childhood memories, in mood, expression, dress.
When Mersal has a child of her own decades later, she begins to wonder whether it’s possible to depict a mother with any degree of fidelity. How to represent—in photography, dream, memory, or writing—an individual whose complex inner landscape has suddenly come under threat of looming archetypes? What is hidden in traditional representations of motherhood? What lies outside the narrative in which motherhood “means giving, the melding of two distinct selves, a love unlimited and unconditional”?
Sifting through the archives of motherhood, including journal entries, photographs, and the writings that have informed her own poetic practice, Mersal privileges questions over answers, drifting over arriving, allowing a form of motherhood to exist in these pages unbounded.
Iman Mersal was born on 30 november 1966 in Dahkalia, Egypt. She is an Egyptian writer, translator, and literary scholar. A professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of Alberta, she is the author of five books of Arabic poetry. In English translation, her poems have appeared in The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, Parnassus, The Paris Review, and The Nation, among others. The Threshold, translated by Robyn Creswell and published in 2022, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won the 2023 National Translation Award. Mersal received the 2021 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in Literature for her creative nonfiction book Traces of Enayat, published by Transit Books in 2024.
