{"product_id":"january-9781953861641","title":"January","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sara Gallardo\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Archipelago Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Archipelago Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: World Literature - Argentina\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Hair-raisingly good . . . the plot explodes.\" - Lily Meyer, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Elegant and forceful - I couldn't put it down.\" - Catherine Lacey, author of \u003ci\u003eBiography of X\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e** ONE of \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORKER'S \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOKS OF 2023 ** \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePerfect for readers of Tove Ditlevsen, Annie Ernaux's \u003ci\u003eHappening\u003c\/i\u003e, and Claudia Piñeiro's \u003ci\u003eElena Knows\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNefer measures the distance between her body and the table, and feels something filling her up, turning against her. Her belly swells. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe attends confession at church but cannot confide in the priest. During a fierce argument with her mother, she finally blurts out her secret. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45157108351127,"sku":"9781953861641","price":1239.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781953861641.webp?v=1768568814","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/january-9781953861641","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}