On a Woman's Madness by Roemer, Astrid

On a Woman's Madness (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781949641431)

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On a Woman's Madness by Roemer, Astrid

On a Woman's Madness

$24.95
On a Woman's Madness by Roemer, Astrid

On a Woman's Madness

$24.95
Format: Hardcover
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A FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

On a Woman's Madness tells the story of Noenka, a courageous Black woman trying to live a life of her own choosing. When her abusive husband of just nine days refuses her request for divorce, Noenka flees her hometown in Suriname, on South America's tropical northeastern coast, for the capital city of Paramaribo. Unsettled and unsupported, her life in this new place is illuminated by romance and new freedoms, but also forever haunted by her past and society's expectations.
Strikingly translated by Lucy Scott, Astrid Roemer's classic queer novel is a tentpole of European and post-colonial literature. And amid tales of plantation-dwelling snakes, rare orchids, and star-crossed lovers, it is also a blistering meditation on the cruelties we inflict on those who disobey. Roemer, the first Surinamese winner of the prestigious Dutch Literature Prize, carves out postcolonial Suriname in barbed, resonant fragments. Who is Noenka? Roemer asks us. "I'm Noenka," she responds resolutely, "which means Never Again."


Author: Astrid Roemer
ISBN-10: 1949641430
ISBN-13: 9781949641431
Publisher: Two Lines Press
Language: English
Published: 02/21/2023
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.10w x 1.20d
Award: National Book Awards - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/12/2022
Foreword 12/27/2022
By Astrid Roemer
By Astrid Roemer
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In 1966, at the age of 19, Astrid Roemer emigrated from Suriname to the Netherlands. She identifies herself as a cosmopolitan writer. Exploring themes of race, gender, family, and identity, her poetic, unconventional prose stands in the tradition of authors such as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. She was awarded the P.C. Hooft Prize in 2016, and the three-yearly Dutch Literature Prize (Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren) in 2021.

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