The Price of Life: on Women and Family Life (women's Growth Trilogy 2)
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About This Novel
Part Two of Deborah Levy's Trilogy of Women's Growth: On Women and Family Life. It was named one of the "100 Best Works of the 21st Century" by The Guardian and won the 2020 French Femina Foreign Literature Prize. "Life falls apart. We try to control ourselves, to stay calm. Then we realize that we don't want to stay calm..." How much does it cost a woman to break old boundaries and gain a small role in a world that is stacked against her? This is the story of every woman in history-who created a home with their love and labor that ended up meeting the needs of everyone but themselves. In this short, emotional, and controversial documentary work, writer Levy not only candidly reviews the darkest moments of his life, including the breakdown of his marriage and the death of his mother, but also thinks about what is a meaningful, valuable, and fun life for women. She cites the works of artists or thinkers such as Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, Elena Ferrante, Marguerite Duras, David Lynch and Emily Dickinson to outline what is the ultimate freedom in women's lives. Recommended by Li Yiyun and Janet Winterson, it is the desk book of Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman.
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