Die My Love
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Man Booker International Prize 2018 Finalist
In a forgotten patch of French countryside, a woman is battling her demons: embracing exclusion yet wanting to belong, craving freedom whilst feeling trapped, yearning for family life but wanting to burn the entire house down. Given surprising leeway by her family for her increasingly erratic behaviour, she nevertheless feels ever more stifled and repressed. Motherhood, womanhood, the banality of love, the terrors of desire, the brutality of ‘another person carrying your heart forever’: Die, My Love faces all this with a raw intensity. It’s not a question of if a breaking point will be reached, but rather when, and how violent a form will it take?
It’s impossible to come out unscathed from reading Ariana Harwicz. The language of Die, My Love cuts like a scalpel even as it attains a kind of cinematic splendour, evoking the likes of John Cassavetes, David Lynch and John Ford. In a text that explores the destabilising effects of passion and its absence, immersed in the psyche of a female protagonist always on the verge of madness (in the tradition of Sylvia Plath and Clarice Lispector), Harwicz moulds language, submitting it to her will in irreverent prose. Bruising and confrontational, yet anchored in an unapologetic beauty and lyricism, Die, My Love is a unique reading experience that quickly becomes addictive.
Ariana Harwicz
Ariana Harwicz nació en Buenos Aires en 1977 y vive en el campo en Francia desde 2007. Su primera novela, Matate, amor (2012), fue publicada en inglés en 2017 bajo el título Die, My Love. Finalista del Primer Premio del Libro otorgado por la EIBF en 2017, del Premio República de la Conciencia y el Man Booker International en 2018 y del BTBA en 2020, Matate, amor ha sido adaptada al teatro y en 2024 será llevada al cine por Martin Scorsese, bajo la dirección de Lynne Ramsay y con Jennifer Lawrence como protagonista. Su cuarta novela, Degenerado, fue publicada por Anagrama en 2019. Sus obras han sido adaptadas al teatro en varios países de Latinoamérica y Europa. En 2021 publicó Desertar, un libro de conversaciones sobre traducción y deserción de la lengua materna escrito junto con Mikaël Gómez Guthart. Sus relatos figuran en medios como Harper's, Granta, Letras Libres, Babelia, The White Review, Brick, Paris Review, The New Yorker, La Quinzaine littéraire, Quimera y The Guardian, y en diversas antologías. Sus libros han sido traducidos a más de veinte lenguas. En 2022 Anagrama reunió, en un volumen titulado Trilogía de la pasión, sus tres primeras novelas. En 2023 ha publicado El ruido de una época, un ensayo acerca del Mal literario y las extorsiones contemporáneas. Asimismo ha escrito el libreto de la ópera Dementia, que se estrenará en el Teatro Colón de Buenos Aires en la temporada 2025.
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Reviews for Die My Love
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Make sure you're in a stable state of mind before reading this. This book is wonderfully written, despite the chaos that was happening. If you like reading about unreliable narrator, or an exploration of an unlikeable character, you'll get both here. Surprisingly funny at some parts to me (idk what says about me lol).
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The author makes you feel like you’re a part of the story.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book is a lil bit painful to read but in the other hand feels so raw and true.