Motherhood

Resumen del libro

**A Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Irish Times, Refinery29, TLS and The White Review Book of the Year 2018**A provocative novel about the desire and duty to procreate, from the author of the critically acclaimed How Should A Person Be?Motherhood treats one of the most consequential decisions of early adulthood - whether or not to have children - with the intelligence, wit and originality that have won Sheila Heti international acclaim. Having reached an age when most of her peers are asking themselves when they will become mothers, Heti's narrator considers, with the same urgency, whether she will do so at all. Over the course of several years, under the influence of her partner, body, family, friends, mysticism and chance, she struggles to make a moral and meaningful choice.

In a compellingly direct mode that straddles the forms of the novel and the essay, Motherhood raises radical and essential questions about womanhood, parenthood, and how - and for whom - to live. 'Likely to become the defining literary work on the subject' Guardian

Biografía del autor

Sheila Heti es autora de diez libros, entre los cuales destacan ¿Cómo debería ser una persona? (Alpha Decay, 2013) y Maternidad (Lumen, 2019). Fue nombrada una de las autoras de The New Vanguard por The New York Times, una lista de quince escritores de todo el mundo que están dando forma a la manera en que leemos y escribimos ficción en el siglo XXI . ¿Cómo debería ser una persona? fue nombrado uno de los 12 Nuevos clásicos del siglo XXI por Vulture. Sus libros se han traducido a veinticinco idiomas.