Klara, Klarisa

The novel follows Klara's becoming Klarisa: a search for herself, for her identity, for the kind of woman she wants to be. It is told from two angles, an impersonal narrator who reaches into her inner, traumatic and dreamlike layers, and her twin brother Klaus, who sees her from the side. It is a story of the relationships that shape her, within the family, with friends, with a mentor and with partners, told from the perspective of a daughter, sister, pupil, friend, lover and mother. It begins with a painful bond with a mother whose discipline bends Klara's talent for singing to the rules of propriety, and it questions the very idea of the biological family.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

202 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

First published

2022 by Bulevar Books

Author's age

40 when first published

ISBN

9788686431424 (original)