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En 2009, el matrimonio de Rachel Cusk llegó a su fin y su mundo se fracturó: «la vida que habíamos 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 había 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.
