Natur & Kultur Foreign Rights
About the Book The narrator, Erica, is a flaneur for the 21st century; like the Parisian dandies, the Meursaults and Roquentins who have come before her, she moves list lessly in urban spaces: New York, Paris, Malmö. With a sort of raw poeticity she conveys the details, textures and
sensations of her contemporary mo ment and finds it ugly and revolting. But what initially appears as a crystallization, in this character, of our time’s elitism and dreams of bodily perfection, soon proves to be a sort of neurosis, expressed through a refusal to deal with what is most human: weakness. Erica’s decision to leave the city and enter nature marks the breaking of an impasse, and the be ginning of a transformative process of an inner landscape, changed forever by the death of a beloved brother. In glowing fragments, Nature chronicles one year’s labor of grieving and the form it takes as self-chosen exclusion.
In angular, shimmering prose, full of surprising images, Ferrada-Noli tells the winding story of a hypersensible, hyper modern young woman’s grieving process as the interface between lived experience and an outward relationship; to moder nity, womanhood, capitalism. 73