January

How to find the words to review this title?

January is a short novel. It tells the story of Nefer, a 16-year-old Argentinian farmworker.

I love the author’s execution of this novel. How she deals with tabu themes in this feminist writing that opened questions about rape and abortion. But there’s nothing explicit about this novel. Usually, there are no actual words used. You just assume what happened. And this makes this novel even more heart-wrenching.

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Details:

• author: Sara Gallardo
  
• full title: January
• translator: Frances Riddle, Maureen Shaughnessy
  
• genre: literary fiction
• format/type: bookfiction
• country: Argentina
• topics: #rape, #abortion, #womanbody, #feminist, #farmworker
  
• publisher: Archipelago
  
• publish date: September 19, 2023
• pages: 160
  

My Rating of the Book:

• content: 💙💙💙💙💙

Excerpt from the Book:

About the Author: 

 

Sara Gallardo was a celebrated Argentinian writer, born in Buenos Aires in 1931. Her debut, January, was published in 1958, and by the time she died in 1988, she had published more than a dozen novels, collections of short stories, children’s books, and essays. January received little critical attention when first released and remained out of print for decades before being recovered. It is now assigned reading in high school classrooms across Argentina.