Eva Figes

Light

Creates an unusual, incisive portrait of a woman, focusing on seven mornings in her life that reveal her changing perceptions and goals as she moves from early childhood to old age

Waking

Nelly's Version could be described as Eva Figes' inventive reshaping of the pop psychological thriller. The story opens as Nelly Dean, a middle-aged woman suffering from amnesia, checks into a small-town hotel with a suitcase full of cash and no idea where it - or she - came from. Distrustful of everyone from the waiter who serves her lunch to a store clerk who claims to know her from grade school, Nelly fears she is part of a conspiracy, although she is strangely indifferent to the clues that might explain her puzzling circumstances. Part dark comedy, part mystery novel, Nelly's Version offers an unsettling journey into the mind of a witty, intelligent woman stuck in a pastless present.

Nelly's Version

The novelist offers a memoir of her childhood, discussing her grandmother, her special relationship with fairy tales, and her flight from Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

Grandmothers and Granddaughters: A Very Special Relationship

Tales of Innocence and Experience

Eva Figes and her family fled the horror of Nazi Germany when Eva was only six, forced to leave behind them friends, relatives, and their housemaid, Edith. Ten years later, Edith suddenly reemerged in their lives. Having miraculously survived wartime Berlin, she had reluctantly emigrated to hostile, volatile Palestine.Recounting Edith's story, Figes boldly argues that Israel was a product of U.S. foreign policy and continuing and widespread anti-Semitism. Part memoir, part brave polemic, this is both a moving account of post-war displacement and a fierce attack on America's role in the Middle East.

One Woman Looks for the Promised Land

Journey to Nowhere

Naarmate een Londense baby langzaam aan volwassen wordt, groeit ook haar beheersing van de Engelse taal.

The Knot

Tells the story of England from a woman's point of view, as seen through the mind of a modern midwife

The Seven Ages

"First published in 1970, Patriarchal Attitudes has since become famous and is considered a classic feminist text. Writing with wit as well as scholarship, Eva Figes examines the factors which have helped place women in subservient roles in most societies, including the influence of Christianity, the rise of capitalism, Freudian psychoanalysis, and sexual taboos. She draws on a wide range of material to illuminate one of the central issues of our time."--Back cover.

Women in Society

Patriarchal Attitudes

Esta extraordinaria novela nos retrata un día en la vida de Monet en su residencia de Giverny, su personalidad como artista y como persona. Con un lenguaje y una prosa tan luminosa como los colores que utilizaba el artista en su famoso jardín, Eva Figes nos presenta la familia de Monet, incluidas su hija Germaine, quien teme no llegar nunca a casarse con el hombre del que está enamorada; su esposa, que aún guarda luto por el hijo perdido tiempo atrás; así como del amigo de la familia y marchante del artista, que bebe y come con ellos mientras observa con exaltación las obras del pintor. Todos los personajes experimentan, de formas diferentes, la riqueza de esa luz que Monet busca plasmar con enardecida perfección en las que serían sus últimas obras maestras.

Y Monet en Giverny

La luz

The woman cannot move. From her bed she watches the minutiae of the sparely furnished hospital room, through the monotonous repetition of days, apparently in total acceptance of her condition. She listens, thinks, remembers. Eva Figes exposes a relentless cycle of human failure, unfulfilled longings and inescapable responsibility. Through this individual tragedy, seen from a new and disturbing angle, Eva Figes probes the deepest trauma of a woman's psyche.

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