The Birth of Love: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (917 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0805091548 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Joanna Kavenna's first novel, Inglorious, received the prestigious Orange Award for debut fiction, while The Ice Museum, a work of travel writing, was short-listed for the Ondaatje Prize. Kavenna's writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Times Literary Supplement, among other publications. S
intriguing A Customer "The Moon". In 1865 Vienna, obstetrician Professor Ignaz Semmelweis fails in his efforts to find the fundamental cause of deadly childbed fever though he felt sanitary conditions played a major role. He mentally falls apart from depression as the vision of all the women he failed to save visits him in his mind; leading to an asylum."The Empress". In 2009 London, Brigid Hayes is in severe pain from labor as she is about to give birth to her second child."The Hermit". Across town from . great premise Loved how the stories intermingled. Felt like some of the plot was a little repetitious. Ending was a little forced or rushed.
Poised at the midpoint is Bridget, whose fervent belief in the wisdom of nature is tested in one of the most gripping accounts of labor to appear in fiction.Original, powerful, and played out against a vast canvas, The Birth of Love is at once a novel about the creation of human life, science and faith, madness and compromise, and the epic journey of motherhood.. In Vienna, Dr. From the winner of the Orange Award for New Writers, an epic novel of childbirthpast, present, and future The year is 1865. In present-day London, Bridget Hughes juggles her young son, husband, and mother as she plans her home birth, unprepared for the trial she is about to endure. Ignasz Semmelweiss has been hounded into an asylum by his medical peers, ridiculed for his claim that doctors' unwashed hands are the root cause of childbed fever. Somewhere in 2135, in a world where humans are birthed and raised in breeding farms, Prisoner 730004 is on trial for concealing a pregnancy.Through three stories spanning centuries, acclaimed novelist Joanna Kavenna explores the most basic plight of women, from the slaughterhouse of primitive medicine to a futurisic vision of technological oppression
But on the whole her writing is sharp, her four narrative voices are nuanced and distinctive, and her emotional, intellectual and stylistic ranges are impressive. Kavenna's ambitious narrative architecture doesn't quite cohere, and some of her rhetorical devices are, well, labored. London, 2009: Brigid Hayes, a devoted wife and mother, awaits the imminent birth of her second child, while across town Michael Stone, after innumerable attempts, finally gets a novel published and struggles to handle the sudden public exposure. . From Publishers Weekly Orange Award–winning (for Inglorious) Kavenna's latest is a complex and expansive narrative about childbirth, encompassing that singular event's mysteries, dramas, attendant sciences, and politics, over a span of more than three centuries. Vienna, 1865: Professor Ignaz Semmelwe