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A profound and deeply personal exploration of pain, the body and loss by the beloved author of Bluets and The Argonauts.
This is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends with chronic pain, and with a pandemic raging in the background, she sets out to examine the literal and symbolic role of the mouth in the life of a writer.
Pathemata recounts the narrator’s tragicomic search to alleviate her suffering, a search that eventually becomes a reckoning with various forms of loss – the loss of intimacy, the loss of her father and the loss of a pivotal friend and mentor. In exacting, distilled prose, her account blurs the lines between embodied, unconscious and everyday life.
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Pages: 80
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Uk
Publication Date: 2026-05-14
ISBN: 9781529951363
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