"There is no doubting the authenticity of Carvalho's vision and the originality and severity of her voice." --Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books

For ten years Dora has ritualistically mourned her husband's death, a pointless ritual that forced her to rely on support from old friends and acquaintances. Her beloved husband, a "Christ" so principled he rejected any ambition whatsoever as a construct of a corrupt society, succeeded only in leaving Dora and their daughter with nothing. When her mother-in-law reveals a shattering secret about their marriage one night, Dora's narrative of her own life is destroyed. Three generations of women--Dora, her daughter, and mother-in-law--must navigate a world that has been shaped by the blundering men off in the distance, figures barely present who nonetheless define the lives of the women they would call mother, wife, or lover.

Narrated through the gritted teeth of an acquaintance, Empty Wardrobes--Maria Judite de Carvalho's cutting 1966 novel, translated from Portuguese for the first time by Margaret Jull Costa and introduced by Kate Zambreno--is a tale of women who are trapped within the quiet devastation of a patriarchal society and preyed upon by the ambient savageries that perch in its every crevice.

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	184
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	Two Lines Press
Fecha de Publicación	2021-10-12
Dimensiones	7.0" x 4.5" x 0.8" pulgadas
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No
Temas	Femenino, Familia, Femenino, Familia, Familia, Femenino, Familia, Femenino, Femenino, Familia, Familia, Femenino, Femenino, Familia, Femenino, Familia, Familia, Femenino, Familia, Femenino, Femenino, Familia, Familia, Femenino, Familia, Femenino, Familia, Femenino, Femenino, Familia

Zambreno, Kate

Kate Zambreno is the author of eight books, most recently the novel Drifts (Riverhead) and a study on Hervé Guibert, To Write as if Already Dead (Columbia University Press). She is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction, and is at work on an essay collection, The Missing Person, to be published by Riverhead, and a novel, Foam. She teaches in the graduate nonfiction program at Columbia University and is the Strachan Donnelley Chair in Environmental Writing at Sarah Lawrence College.

Jull Costa, Margaret

Margaret Jull Costa has been a literary translator for nearly thirty years and has translated works by novelists such as José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, José Saramago, Fernando Pessoa, and Javier Marías, as well as the poetry of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Ana Luísa Amaral. She has won various prizes, most recently the 2015 Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation for Bernardo Atxaga's The Adventures of Shola.

de Carvalho, Maria Judite

Maria Judite de Carvalho (1921-1998) is widely considered one of Portugal's most important writers of the second half of the twentieth century. Born and educated in Lisbon, with a secondary education in France, Carvalho's work spans painting, journalism, and fiction, with a specialization in the short story and novella forms. A writer of great concision with an eye on modernization, the changing politics of Portugal, and the effect of contemporary life on everyday people, especially women, Carvalho published widely and to great critical acclaim in her time. Empty Wardrobes is her first work available in English.