This novel was shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize.Ĭontent warnings for animal cruelty, self-harm, reckless drug use.

Sphinx is a landmark text in the feminist, LGBT, and experimental literary canons appearing in English for. Iquela and Paloma are trapped in the grip of their mothers and their mothers’ stories of militant resistance. Boken finns inte i butik, men kp den grna online. Sphinx d’Anne Garréta et Le Corps lesbien de Monique Wittig Eva Feole Le Littéraire Bords : mathématiciens - précurseurs - encyclopédistes Raymond Queneau Féminin : l’écriture oulipienne. Felipe is obsessed with numbers, possessed with a fanatical desperation to make them balance, between the missing and unaccounted for bodies of the dictatorship and the ones dying, being disinterred, being discovered or named. The Remainder is a compelling book about pain, history, and generational trauma. 5.95/mo for the first 4 months For a limited-time, save over 60 on your first 4 months of Audible Premium Plus, and enjoy bestselling audiobooks, new releases, Originals, podcasts, and more. Paloma, a childhood friend and crush of Iquela, comes back to Santiago to bury her mother, but when her mother’s body is lost in transit, the three of them set out to Mendoza to try and find it. Garrta est l’auteur de Sphinx (Grasset, 1986), La dcomposition (Grasset, 1999) et Pas un jour (Grasset, 2002, prix Medicis). This constraint is the founding principle of her debut novel Sphinx, which recounts the love between two genderless characters: the narrator, a white theology. Felipe and Iquela live in the aftermath of Chile’s dictatorship, burdened with their parents’ trauma, heavy with the weight of what came before them, damaged by their parents’ insistence that they hold it within them - and desperate to shake it off.

Sphinx by Anne Garréta