Detransition, Baby: Longlisted for the Women's Prize 2021 and Top Ten Times Bestseller
Autor Torrey Petersen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 ian 2022
Observăm în Detransition, Baby o explorare neașteptat de onestă a modului în care ne construim familiile atunci când modelele tradiționale nu ne mai servesc. Totul pornește de la o dorință profundă, aproape burgheză, a personajului Reese: aceea de a fi mamă. Însă stabilitatea ei se destramă atunci când partenera sa, Amy, decide să detranziționeze, devenind Ames. Ceea ce urmează nu este doar o cronică a pierderii, ci o propunere radicală: ce s-ar întâmpla dacă Reese, Ames și Katrina — femeia însărcinată cu copilul lui Ames — ar încerca să crească acest copil împreună? Scrisă într-un stil urgent și pătrunzător, această lucrare de [ficțiune contemporană](bic_category) în limba engleză refuză soluțiile simple sau platitudinile despre identitate. Cine a citit Babies in Waiting de Rosie Fiore va recunoaște aici tema centrală a modului în care o sarcină poate forța destinele a trei femei să se intersecteze iremediabil, însă Torrey Peters duce această premisă mult mai departe, chestionând însăși esența feminității. Spre deosebire de alte romane despre maternitate, aici accentul cade pe vulnerabilitatea extremă și pe efortul de a recupera un sentiment de acasă într-un spațiu al incertitudinii de gen. Apreciem modul în care autoarea navighează prin „colțurile murdare” ale relațiilor umane, oferind o perspectivă care este, în același timp, specifică experienței trans și universală în foamea sa de conexiune.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1788167228
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Profile
Colecția Serpent's Tail
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm acest roman celor care caută o proză provocatoare, care nu se teme să disece tabuurile moderne despre gen și familie. Cititorul va câștiga o perspectivă nuanțată asupra complexității identității trans, dincolo de discursul politic, într-o poveste despre maturizare și responsabilitate. Este o lectură esențială pentru oricine apreciază personajele profund umane, cu defecte și dorințe contradictorii, care încearcă să găsească iubirea în forme noi.
Despre autor
Torrey Peters este o scriitoare americană care a captat atenția criticii internaționale prin curajul de a aborda teme complexe ale identității de gen în literatura de masă. Cu Detransition, Baby, ea a devenit prima femeie trans nominalizată vreodată pe lista Women's Prize for Fiction, marcând un moment istoric în beletristica contemporană. În alte lucrări ale sale, precum Stag Dance, Peters continuă să exploreze granițele fluidității și ale experienței umane la marginea normativității, fiind recunoscută pentru stilul său incisiv, inteligent și lipsit de menajamente în descrierea realităților sociale actuale.
Notă biografică
Torrey Peters lives in Brooklyn and holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and a Masters in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth. She is the author of two novellas, Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones and The Masker. @torreypeters
Recenzii
Irresistible ... Perhaps Detransition, Baby is the first great trans realist novel? Witty, elegant and rigorously plotted
The smartest novel I've read in ages ... it manages to be utterly savage & lacerating while also conveying endlessly expanding compassion. It's kind of a miracle.
Detransition, Baby is emotionally generous, richly textured, and deeply intelligent - a vibrant and kaleidoscopic portrait of complicated women and their colliding lives.
Detransition, Baby updates and transcends (trans-scends!) the Sex and the City model, while fully delivering its many satisfactions! ... A noteworthy advance in the history of the novel!
Riveting, insightful, and very funny ... an unforgettable portrait of three women, trans and cis, who wrestle with questions of motherhood and family-making. Destined to be a 21st century classic, Detransition, Baby will definitely keep you up late and might destroy your book club, but in a good way.
Torrey Peters just took everything that couldn't be done, and did it ... Plenty of books are good; this book is alive.
Peters confronts the unruliness of our desires, and our vitality as we struggle within their limits ... a dishy, engrossing new novel
Writing with alarming insight, Torrey Peters captures the grandiose, heartfelt and sometimes mangled aspirations of queer and trans people facing an unprecedented array of personal choice. By showing how gender transition (like divorce, or any transformative life event) can be simultaneously destabilizing and liberating, Peters makes trans culture relatable to all. A voraciously knowing, compulsively readable novel.
I love Detransition, Baby for its wit, its irreverence. And I love it even more for its reverence-its reverence for the quest for womanhood, motherhood, selfhood. Torrey Peters evokes these characters with such fullness and compassion that they felt like dear friends to me. This is an important book, and I couldn't put it down.
I loved [Detransition, Baby] so, so much - it's so smart, funny and sad about human nature and all our longings, hypocrisy, shame and sweetness. And it's fearlessly thought-provoking about gender. Such a literary feat and also such a great read.
Detransition, Baby is a landmark piece of trans literature - brutally honest and yet incredibly sensitive about trans living, tremendously funny and sexy as hell.
A visceral, funny exploration of sex and gender through a triad of people - trans and cis -rocked by an unexpected pregnancy
Smart, funny, and bighearted. . . . A wonderfully original exploration of desire and the evolving shape of family [and] . . . a dishy contemporary drama.
Possibly the most hotly anticipated work of transgender fiction ever
Page-turning ... Through a careful narrative that laces humour into every paragraph, Peters paints a story of LGBT identity that will be engaging to any person who has struggled to define their place in the world
Fleishman is in Trouble meets Transparent in this eye-opening, gender-bending exploration of parenthood.
Written with verve and humour, it's a must-read for 2021.
The distinctive storyline in this page-turner navigates gender, sex, relationships (from romantic to familial), and the commonly unaccepted ideas surrounding them.
Detransition, Baby strikes to the heart of the moment. This conversation-shifting, taboo-busting novel is set to catapult its author, Torrey Peters - a Brooklyn-based trans writer whose two self-published novellas drew a cult following - into the mainstream ... Detransition, Baby should be on your reading list. It's an exuberant novel of ideas, desire and life's messy ironies - all filtered through Peters' astute, witty characters.
Devastating, hilarious, touching, timely and studded with fun pop culture references and celebrity cameos, this is an acutely intelligent story about womanhood, parenthood and all the possibilities that lie within.
A landmark... Detransition, Baby is a comic and prodding take on transness and taboos.
A riotously funny and fearless debut from Torrey Peters, who is clearly not afraid of polarising readers.
With heart and savvy, Detransition, Baby upends our traditional, gendered notions of what parenthood can look like. . . . Reese, Ames and Katrina feel to us more like friends than characters.
Ferociously smart and fearlessly queer ... this enthralling, extraordinary book is as queer as Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor, and as sharp as Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life. Superb.
Detransition Baby is somehow both biting and deeply tender all at once... and feels up-to-the-second relevant. A lot of people recommended this book to me, and I will be recommending it to many, many others, queer, trans, straight, cis
Sparklingly intelligent ... Detransition, Baby is for anyone who has ever reached a point of reassessment, transformation and risk
Perhaps the first great novel about the realities of being trans, this witty, savage yet compassionate story is essential, exciting reading
The striking thing about Torrey Peters's first novel is not its vivid portrait of trans women's lives in Obama-era Brooklyn, nor its mordant wit, but the sheer accomplishment of its carpentry... a brave defence of what it means to be a woman - and a mother
Detransition, Baby blows preconceived notions of the nuclear family out of the water, by questioning what personal fulfilment can and should look like in a contemporary setting ... Tantalising
Devastating, hilarious, tender, ambitious, provocative - there simply aren't enough superlatives to heap upon this masterful work of fiction.
One of my all-time favourite novels. Torrey Peters writes with brutal honesty about the trans experience, refusing to shy away from the dark sides, creating full-formed characters rather than political mouthpieces, and in doing so, allows the reader a full empathic experience
Descriere
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021
Shortlisted for the 2022 National Book Critics' Circle John Leonard Prize for best first book
As heard on BBC Radio 4's Front Row'A voraciously knowing, compulsively readable novel' Chris Kraus'Tremendously funny and sexy as hell' Juliet Jacques'I loved this very smart book from start to finish, with its beautifully drawn, complicated, and winning characters.' Madeleine MillerReese nearly had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York, a job she didn't hate. She'd scraped together a life previous generations of trans women could only dream of; the only thing missing was a child. Then everything fell apart and three years on Reese is still in self-destruct mode, avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men.When her ex calls to ask if she wants to be a mother, Reese finds herself intrigued. After being attacked in the street, Amy de-transitioned to become Ames, changed jobs and, thinking he was infertile, started an affair with his boss Katrina. Now Katrina's pregnant. Could the three of them form an unconventional family - and raise the baby together?