Novedades

Sybil Van Antwerp has throughout her life used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings, around half past ten, Sybil sits down to write letters—to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter.

Former correspondents E. and Henerey, accustomed to loving each other from afar, did not anticipate continuing their courtship in an enigmatic underwater city. When their journey through the Structure in E.'s garden strands them in a peculiar society preoccupied with the pleasures and perils of knowledge, E. and Henerey come to accept—and, more surprisingly still, embrace—the fact that they may never return home.

In her letters to family and friends we come to know the life of Sybil Van Antwerp: stubborn, cantankerous, opinionated, always steadfast in her belief in the power of the written word. But as the clock begins to tick for Sybil, the need for a few post-scripts to the life she’s led becomes apparent. Fixing her difficult relationship with her children. Taking a final chance at romance. Atoning for an old legal case which has come back to haunt her. And finally, reckoning with a devastating loss that she has spent the last thirty years holding close to her chest.

ദ്രൗപദി ശ്രീകൃഷ്ണന് അയയ്ക്കുന്ന ദീര്‍ഘമായ കത്തിന്റെ രൂപത്തിലാണ് ഒറിയഭാഷയിലെ പ്രശസ്തമായ ഈ നോവല്‍ രചിക്കപ്പെട്ടിട്ടുള്ളത്. സ്വര്‍ഗ്ഗത്തേക്കു നടന്നുകയറുന്നതിനിടയില്‍ കാല്‍വഴുതിവീണ ദ്രൗപദി ഹിമാലയത്തിലെ മഞ്ഞുപാളികളില്‍ കിടന്നുകൊണ്ട് പ്രക്ഷു ബ്ധമായ തന്റെ ജീവിതത്തിന്റെ ഓരോ ഘട്ട ത്തെയുംകുറിച്ച് സഖാവായ ശ്രീകൃഷ്ണന് ഹൃദയരക്തം ചാലിച്ചെഴുതുന്നു. സ്ത്രീത്വത്തിന്റെ സമസ്യകള്‍ക്കെതിരേ പോരാടുന്ന സ്ത്രീചിത്ത ത്തിന്റെ ആവിഷ്‌കാരമാണിത്. ലോകത്തെമ്പാ ടുമുള്ള മനുഷ്യവര്‍ഗ്ഗത്തിനുവേണ്ടി സംസാരി ക്കുന്ന ഒരാധുനിക മനസ്സിന്റെ ഉടമയായി ദ്രൗപദി ഈ നോവലില്‍ നിലകൊള്ളുന്നു.

Ci sono momenti nella vita in cui si sente il bisogno di prendersi una pausa e ripercorrere con calma, senza le continue incombenze quotidiane, le tappe della nostra esistenza. Un viaggio che, anche nei momenti difficili e bui, ci ha portato a provare un sentimento di riconoscenza e gratitudine verso chi ha condiviso con noi il cammino, le prove, le epifanie. Così Chiara, alla soglia dei sessant’anni, approfittando dell’improvviso silenzio che avvolge la sua casa in collina, decide di scrivere tre lettere.