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The Rooftop

Fernanda Trías
3.76/5 (776 ratings)
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‘The world is this house’, says Clara while she is trying to protect her beloved ones from the world – yes, that one outside their house walls – which seems to threaten them more and more. Clara entrenches herself with her father and her daughter Flor in a dark apartment that inevitably crumbles on them. The roof becomes their last recess of freedom. A caged bird is the only witness of Clara’s fear and resistance against those she thinks are trying to destroy her.

‘Are threats and pain external or inside our own bodies? Where is violence’s root? What are we afraid of? Is there a possibility to find a roof to finally being able to breathe? What are our umbilical cords?’. Fernanda Trías does not answer these questions – impossible for anyone – about instinct, civilization and taboos, instead she gives them shape and dives deep into them a with a grotesque and forceful history written with agility and a Kafkaesque sense of humour.

Rooftop is a claustrophobic novel about freedom, and also about fear, violence, motherhood and loss.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
112 pages
Publication:
2021
Publisher:
Charco Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1913867048
ISBN13:
9781913867041
kindle Asin:
B08T6C1G1P

The Rooftop

Fernanda Trías
3.76/5 (776 ratings)
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‘The world is this house’, says Clara while she is trying to protect her beloved ones from the world – yes, that one outside their house walls – which seems to threaten them more and more. Clara entrenches herself with her father and her daughter Flor in a dark apartment that inevitably crumbles on them. The roof becomes their last recess of freedom. A caged bird is the only witness of Clara’s fear and resistance against those she thinks are trying to destroy her.

‘Are threats and pain external or inside our own bodies? Where is violence’s root? What are we afraid of? Is there a possibility to find a roof to finally being able to breathe? What are our umbilical cords?’. Fernanda Trías does not answer these questions – impossible for anyone – about instinct, civilization and taboos, instead she gives them shape and dives deep into them a with a grotesque and forceful history written with agility and a Kafkaesque sense of humour.

Rooftop is a claustrophobic novel about freedom, and also about fear, violence, motherhood and loss.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
112 pages
Publication:
2021
Publisher:
Charco Press
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1913867048
ISBN13:
9781913867041
kindle Asin:
B08T6C1G1P

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