Summary
Slavenka Drakulić: The Invisible Woman and Other Stories
Why is it that today, in a modern society that destroys all taboos, only age and aging are topics that are almost forbidden to talk about? Do we become invisible with age, what happens to our bodies, our relationship to others and, more importantly, the relationship of others to us? The webs we weave all our lives suddenly become thin and fragile. Sixteen stories in Slavenka Drakulić's new book Invisible Woman tell about interpersonal relationships, about relationships between parents and children, about departures, disappearances, forgetfulness, illness, shame and pain, about the deepest feelings that we don't dare to talk about.
Slavenka Drakulić deeply emotional, without reservation, tells about the experience of the disintegration of life in which old people become invisible not only to the environment and the larger system own family and friends. Cathartic, liberating, Invisible Woman hits the plexus of contemporary society. Slavenka Drakulić literary powerfully gets under the reader's skin in every single story, forcing him to stop, to think about himself and others, to be shocked, to cry, to indulge in emotions and rage. The Invisible Woman is a liberating, deeply intimate book that proves that only literature can say the unspeakable.
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