Killing the Nerve - Anna Pazos - diskuze

Longlisted for the Premi Finestres 2023 · Voted Best Catalan Book of the Year by El País ** **A fearless and luminous debut about freedom, belonging, and the end of youth... ** **“It powerfully conveys the anxiety, chaos, and disillusionment of a world hurtling towards collapse.” — Julià Guillamon, La Vanguardia“Very Joan Didion.” — Jordi Puntí, El PeriódicoIf like me you read, adored, and became obsessed with PERFECTION by Vicenzo Latronico, I think you’re going to need to read this book! - Night Owl Books“A sharp, sceptical and deeply intelligent voice for a restless generation.” — El CulturalFor fans of Deborah Levy, Rachel Cusk and Leslie Jamison, Killing the Nerve captures the spirit of a generation that came of age in motion — global, self-aware, and searching for meaning in a world without anchors. Not so much autofiction as autojournalism, Anna Pazos charts the end of youth and the beginning of adulthood for the global nomad generation. From the ‘Mediterranean mediocrity’ of bourgeois Barcelona to the chaos of Erasmus days in Thessaloniki, from her first steps in journalism in Jerusalem to a transatlantic voyage with an unsuitable lover — and finally to post-MeToo, pre-pandemic New York — this is a portrait of a woman always moving, always questioning. When she is forced back to Barcelona in 2021, Pazos turns her gaze inward, confronting family, memory,
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