Publisher's Synopsis
En 2009, el matrimonio de Rachel Cusk llegó a su fin y su mundo se fracturó: &«la vida que habìamos construido juntos se desarmó, como un puzle convertido en un montón de pie¬zas con los bordes recortados». Despojos es el relato de esa ruptura, en el que una escritora y madre de dos niñas observa sus propias reacciones ante la destrucción de la vida tal y como la habìa entendido hasta entonces. Una mujer que, mientras crea una nueva individualidad para ella y un nuevo modelo de familia para sus hijas -en una sociedad que sitúa el amor conyugal como centro sagrado e inquebrantable de una familia-, descubre una inesperada vulnerabilidad, pero también libertades y fortalezas desconocidas. Rachel Cusk, una de las voces más aclamadas y más originales de la literatura actual, utiliza su talento narrativo para crear una obra profundamente turbadora por su singularidad, cuya arrolladora franqueza y feroz autoconocimiento ha deleitado y conmocionado a partes iguales.
In 2009, Rachel Cusk's marriage ended and her world was torn to pieces, and Despojos is the story of that severance, a book where a writer and mother of two girls scrutinizes over her own reactions to the destruction of the life she had spent years building. While creating a new identity for herself and a new family model for her daughters-in a society that romantic love between parents as the sacred and unbreakable center of the family-she discovers an unexpected vulnerability, along with unknown freedoms and strengths. One of the most acclaimed voices in contemporary literature, Cusk uses her storytelling talents to create a work deeply disturbing in its uniqueness, whose overwhelming frankness and fierce self-knowledge will delight and shock in equal measure.
In 2009, Rachel Cusk's marriage ended and her world was torn to pieces, and Despojos is the story of that severance, a book where a writer and mother of two girls scrutinizes over her own reactions to the destruction of the life she had spent years building. While creating a new identity for herself and a new family model for her daughters-in a society that romantic love between parents as the sacred and unbreakable center of the family-she discovers an unexpected vulnerability, along with unknown freedoms and strengths. One of the most acclaimed voices in contemporary literature, Cusk uses her storytelling talents to create a work deeply disturbing in its uniqueness, whose overwhelming frankness and fierce self-knowledge will delight and shock in equal measure.
