{"product_id":"january","title":"January","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eJanuary\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eSara Gallardo\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781953861641\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eArchipelago\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2023\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e** ONE of \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORKER'S \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOKS OF 2023 ** \u003c\/b\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\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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Archipelago","offers":[{"title":"January | Sara Gallardo | Paperback | 9781953861641 | New | Fiction 1577350","offer_id":50597664555266,"sku":"1577350","price":32.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/61azvrGW8AL.jpg?v=1791137304","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/january","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}