Als de dieren

A woman recalls the months after her child's birth, when a depression after childbirth estranged her from herself and left her with hopelessness, shame, dread, self-reproach and a huge void; people tell her that the few words she says sound like paper being torn. Her memories of that time run down a narrow strip on the right-hand side of each page, while passages spread across the whole page return to the years that came before. Its structure follows the seven gates of the underworld that the goddess Inanna passes in the Sumerian myth, as the narrator looks for words for something that will not be put into words.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

311 pages in the original

First published

2025 by Das Mag

ISBN

9789493320833 (original)