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Abyss

di Pilar Quintana

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"Claudia seeks the attention of her melancholic mother, also named Claudia, who occupies her days reading gossip magazines and tending to the family's teeming collection of house plants in their Cali, Colombia, apartment. The mother is particularly obsessed with the deaths of famous women such as actor Natalie Wood, who died in 1981, and tells the narrator they took their own lives to escape from domineering men. The older Claudia married the narrator's father, Jorge, at 19 when he was 42, and though he's away working most of the time, the younger Claudia reveres him. The older Claudia then begins a secret love affair with her 30-year-old brother in law, which is exposed during a family trip to a seashore city, and Jorge threatens to kick Claudia out. Overhearing this, the narrator changes her view of Jorge, likening him to a monster. Later, the older Claudia's best friend, Gloria dies by suicide, and Claudia's comments on Gloria, who suffered from depression, make the narrator worried about her mother's safety and well-being. Visceral images propel the story ("Mama laughed so wide, you could see the roof of her mouth, hollow and grooved like an underfed torso"), as the narrator grows increasingly concerned about what's going to happen next."--… (altro)
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Een jong meisje dat met haar gezin in een kleine flat woont, krijgt te maken met de tekortkomingen van haar ouders en beleeft de wereld om haar heen op geheel eigen wijze ( )
  huizenga | Sep 24, 2023 |
While many people focus on how Claudia’s experiences show how children witness and are affected by their surroundings, I would like to explore how much of an only child she is. Being an only child is a unique experience. Some people believe that it’s obvious that only children don’t have siblings to squash them or make them more responsible and that makes them more spoiled and selfish. They may not be good at sharing their personal space and are prone to becoming introverted. However, “Abyss” is the first book I’ve read in a long time that captures the inwardness and loneliness of an only child with messy parents. It’s important to note that there’s nothing inherently wrong with feeling introverted or lonely, and having another child simply to provide companionship for the first child is not a good idea. In fact, according to an article by Psychology Today, only children are just like everyone else.

In addition, the novel captures the phenomenon of hyper-fixation, which is a term that describes the intense focus that can occur in one’s mind. As an only child, this experience resonates with me, and I find it fascinating to see it portrayed in literature. At the same time, calling hyper-fixation by its name makes me feel a bit less different; a little less special but also more relieved. I’m not a crazy obsessive person; I am who I am.

"That terrible heat, I felt it, like a rope around her neck."

And in this novel we see two generations of this obsession. One now a mother and the other a child, and with the tremendous loneliness, (or perhaps relief) of not being the fixation. Of course, she’s also depressed. Of course, it’s brilliant in the throws of an obsession to hover on the edge of a cliff. But it’s not for a child. It’s not for a girl who see’s but doesn’t fully understand why her parents marriage is a breath away from imploding. Why you’d want to hope someone wanted to drive themselves of a cliff, while you’d want to hope that it was and wasn’t suicide when they toppled from a balcony. I don’t want to romanticise the latter, but I can understand why we’d want the women around us to have control over their endings, especially if they had none over the rest of the story.

This is also turning into less of a review and more of a ramble.

Let’s call the book thought provoking and call it a day. ( )
  bookstagramofmine | Feb 18, 2023 |
Premio Alfaguara de novela 2021
Una novela sobre el fin de la infancia y sus fantasmas
Claudia vive con sus padres en un apartamento invadido por plantas que se estiran para tocarla. Como todas las familias, la suya contiene una crisis, y solo hará falta que algo o alguien llegue a detonarla.

Cada quien tiene un punto de quiebre en la infancia, y Claudia, la protagonista de esta historia, narra, desde la expectación y la mirada aguda de cuando fue una niña, los hechos que abrieron las grietas por donde se colaron los peores temores, aquellos que son irreversibles y empujan al borde del precipicio.

Los abismos es un relato estremecedor en el que una hija asume las revelaciones de su madre y los silencios de su padre para empezar a construir su propio mundo. Tras el éxito de La perra, con esta novela, Pilar Quintana consolida el importante lugar que ha conquistado en las letras hispanoamericanas.
  bibliotecayamaguchi | Sep 3, 2021 |
Claudia vive con sus padres en un apartamento invadido por plantas que se estiran para tocarla. Como todas las familias, la suya contiene una crisis, y solo hará falta que algo o alguien llegue a detonarla.

Cada quien tiene un punto de quiebre en la infancia, y Claudia, la protagonista de esta historia, narra, desde la expectación y la mirada aguda de cuando fue una niña, los hechos que abrieron las grietas por donde se colaron los peores temores, aquellos que son irreversibles y empujan al borde del precipicio.

Los abismos es un relato estremecedor en el que una hija asume las revelaciones de su madre y los silencios de su padre para empezar a construir su propio mundo. Tras el éxito deLa perra, con esta novela, Pilar Quintana consolida el importante lugar que ha conquistado en las letras hispanoamericanas.

«Los abismos se adentra en la oscuridad del mundo de los adultos a través del punto de vista de una niña que, desde la memoria de su vida familiar, intenta comprender la conflictiva relación entre sus padres. Con el telón de fondo de un mundo femenino de mujeres atadas a la rueda de una noria de la que no pueden o no saben escapar, la autora ha creado una historia poderosa narrada desde una aparente ingenuidad que contrasta con la atmósfera desdichada que rodea a la protagonista. Con una prosa sutil y luminosa en la que la naturaleza nos conecta con las posibilidades simbólicas de la literatura, y los abismos son tanto los reales como los de la intimidad.» (Acta del jurado) ( )
  MigueLoza | May 12, 2021 |
Sara Mesa Claudia vive con sus padres en un apartamento invadido por plantas que se estiran para tocarla. Como todas las familias, la suya contiene una crisis, y solo hará falta que algo o alguien llegue a detonarla. Cada quien tiene un punto de quiebre en la infancia, y Claudia, la protagonista de esta historia, narra, desde la expectación y la mirada aguda de cuando fue una niña, los hechos que abrieron las grietas por donde se colaron los peores temores, aquellos que son irreversibles y empujan al borde del precipicio.
  biblilumberri | May 5, 2021 |
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"Claudia seeks the attention of her melancholic mother, also named Claudia, who occupies her days reading gossip magazines and tending to the family's teeming collection of house plants in their Cali, Colombia, apartment. The mother is particularly obsessed with the deaths of famous women such as actor Natalie Wood, who died in 1981, and tells the narrator they took their own lives to escape from domineering men. The older Claudia married the narrator's father, Jorge, at 19 when he was 42, and though he's away working most of the time, the younger Claudia reveres him. The older Claudia then begins a secret love affair with her 30-year-old brother in law, which is exposed during a family trip to a seashore city, and Jorge threatens to kick Claudia out. Overhearing this, the narrator changes her view of Jorge, likening him to a monster. Later, the older Claudia's best friend, Gloria dies by suicide, and Claudia's comments on Gloria, who suffered from depression, make the narrator worried about her mother's safety and well-being. Visceral images propel the story ("Mama laughed so wide, you could see the roof of her mouth, hollow and grooved like an underfed torso"), as the narrator grows increasingly concerned about what's going to happen next."--

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