An edition of Mramorna koža (1989)

Marble skin

a novel

1st American ed.
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An edition of Mramorna koža (1989)

Marble skin

a novel

1st American ed.
  • 3 Want to read

A sculptor carves a statue out of ice-cold, smooth, glittering marble and calls it "My Mother's Body." Her mother sees the sculpture, recognizes in it all the pain and frustration of their relationship over the years, and tries to take her own life. Forced together by this near tragedy, the daughter sits at her mother's bedside and relives her childhood years, confronting the specter of sexual conflict that haunts their pasts.

Remembering this remote and beautiful woman, she must also remember the man who invaded their lives long ago, who insinuated and seduced his way first into her mother's affections and then, unforgiveably, into her own....

Creating a scandal when it was first published in the former Yugoslavia, this provocative and immensely readable novel explodes one of the last taboos in our western culture - the image of the sexual mother. Marble Skin explores the darkest recesses of the female psyche and exposes the destructive power of sexual desire when forced to compete with the bonds of maternal love.

A worthy successor to her previous novel Holograms of Fear, Marble Skin should guarantee Slavenka Drakulic her position as one of the most influential women writing in Europe today.

Publish Date
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Language
English
Pages
188

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Marble skin
Marble skin: a novel
1995, HarperPerennial
in English - 1st HarperPerennial ed.
Cover of: Marble skin
Marble skin: a novel
1994, W.W. Norton
in English - 1st American ed.
Cover of: Marble skin
Marble skin
1993, Hutchinson
in English
Cover of: Peau de marbre
Peau de marbre: roman
1991, Robert Laffont
in French
Cover of: Mramorna koža
Mramorna koža
1989, Grafički zavod Hrvatske
in Croatian

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
891.8/235
Library of Congress
PG1619.14.R34 M7313 1994, PG1619.14.R34M7313

The Physical Object

Pagination
188 p. ;
Number of pages
188

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1404962M
Internet Archive
marbleskinnovel00drak
ISBN 10
0393034771
LCCN
93013150
OCLC/WorldCat
27937257
Library Thing
13559
Goodreads
1466908

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