"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon." Shame begins as the story of a twelve-year-old girl, but it is also about the storyteller, a mature woman, the author herself. The violent moment lives inside her. The trauma comes at a moment when …
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"My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon." Shame begins as the story of a twelve-year-old girl, but it is also about the storyteller, a mature woman, the author herself. The violent moment lives inside her. The trauma comes at a moment when she is still so close to her mother and father that the threatened act of violence is incomprehensible. It cuts through her like an axe.
Over time, the memory cools until it is just a snapshot she carries in her purse, unchanging even after years have passed and the twelve-year-old girl has grown into an orgasmic woman and a writer. Years later the cut is still there, but her whole being has grown around it like a tree that has been struck by lightning and survived.
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Skammen
Hardcover, 127 pages
Swedish language
Published 1998 by Wahlström & Widstrand.
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- 978-91-46-17237-6Copied ISBN!
La vergüenza
Paperback, 136 pages
Spanish language
Published by Tusquets Editores S.A..
- ISBN:
- 978-84-9066-782-8Copied ISBN!
La vergüenza
Paperback, 150 pages
Spanish language
Published by Tusquets.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-8310-099-8Copied ISBN!
La Honte
mass market paperback, 141 pages
French language
Published by Gallimard French.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-040715-6Copied ISBN!
La Honte
Paperback, 132 pages
French language
Published 1997 by Messageries du Livre.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-07-074787-0Copied ISBN!
Die Scham
taschenbuch, 110 pages
German language
Published 2022 by Suhrkamp, Suhrkamp Verlag AG.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-518-47180-7Copied ISBN!
Shame
114 pages
English language
Published 2011 by Seven Stories Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-58322-018-4Copied ISBN!
Shame
English language
Published 2023 by Fitzcarraldo Editions.
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- 978-1-80427-056-1Copied ISBN!
La honte
French language
Published 1999 by Gallimard.
Vergüenza
Spanish language
Published 2022 by Editorial Planeta, S. A..
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- 978-607-07-9637-1Copied ISBN!
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