وصف الكتاب | A young woman in Buenos Aires spies three women in the house opposite her family's home. Intrigued, she begins to watch them. She imagines them as accomplices to an unknown crime, as troubled spinsters contemplating suicide, or as players in an affair with dark and mysterious consequences. Lange's imaginative excesses and almost hallucinatory images make this uncanny exploration of desire, domestic space, voyeurism and female isolation a twentieth-century masterpiece. Too long viewed as Borges's muse, Lange is today recognised in the Spanish-speaking world as a great writer and is here translated into English for the first time, to be read alongside Virginia Woolf, Clarice Lispector and Marguerite Duras. |
عن المؤلف | Norah Lange was born in 1905 to Norwegian parents in Buenos Aires. A key figure of the Argentinean avant-garde, her books include the novels People in the Room and The Two Portraits, and the celebrated memoirs Notes from Childhood and Before They Die. Charlotte Whittle's translations and writing have appeared in Mantis, The Literary Review, The Los Angeles Times, Guernica, Electric Literature, BOMB, the Northwest Review of Books, and elsewhere. She lives in New York and is an editor at Cardboard House Press. |