{"product_id":"9781953861641","title":"January","description":"By: Sara Gallardo     \u003chr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Hair-raisingly good . . . the plot explodes.\"  – Lily Meyer, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Elegant and forceful – I couldn’t put it down.”  – Catherine Lacey, author of \u003ci\u003eBiography of X\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e** ONE of \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORKER'S \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOKS OF 2023 **\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA pioneering, revelatory masterpiece of modern literature that conjures the life of 16-year-old girl living on the Argentine pampas — now in English for the very first time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith echoes of Edith Wharton’s \u003ci\u003eSummer\u003c\/i\u003e, this radical feminist novel broke the silence around abortion to reshape the way women’s bodies and rights were perceived in 20th-century Argentina\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerfect for readers of Tove Ditlevsen, Annie Ernaux’s \u003ci\u003eHappening\u003c\/i\u003e, and Claudia Piñeiro’s \u003ci\u003eElena Knows\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA radical feminist text, \u003ci\u003eJanuary \u003c\/i\u003ewas the first Argentine novel to  represent rape from the survivor’s perspective and to explore the  life-threatening risks pregnancy posed, in a society where abortion was  both outlawed and taboo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the sweltering Argentine pampas, all things bow to Nefer. Reeds nod when she digs her heels into her horse, unripe peaches snap and fall as she gallops past. Sickly-sweet air bends, churns in Nefer’s throat. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNefer measures the distance between her body and the table, and feels something filling her up, turning against her. Her belly swells.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesperate, Nefer visits a local medicine woman who is known to perform abortions but Nefer becomes too afraid to explain why she is truly there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe attends confession at church but cannot confide in the priest. During a fierce argument with her mother, she finally blurts out her secret.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a narcotic musicality and voice scorched through with honesty, Gallardo hangs before us an experience that has been lived and ignored a thousand times over. Nefer closes her eyes. We careen to her and we see.","brand":"Archipelago","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":46781967827171,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9781953861641","price":115.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9781953861641.jpg?v=1751733307","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh\/products\/9781953861641","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}