Cinco anos despois de ser nai, a protagonista desta novela atópase inesperadamente na disxuntiva de decidir se quere volver selo ou non. O recordo doloroso do primeiro ano de crianza do seu fillo devólvelle un reflexo da experiencia que non resulta doado encaixar, atravesado pola culpa e o arrepentimento. Desde o relato das derradeiras semanas do ano, onde as reunións familiares se mesturan con acontecementos repentinos, a narradora fálanos da familia e da parella, dos lazos que non se escollen, pero tamén do loito, da amizade e da capacidade da literatura para recoller aquilo ao que nos custa poñerlle nome. Berta Dávila configura en «Os seres queridos», Premio Xerais de Novela 2021, un autorretrato incómodo sobre o que significa o amor maternal, unha historia que afonda nas arestas controvertidas da maternidade e confronta o relato edulcorado. Pero, por enriba de todo, a autora constrúe unha novela sobre os vínculos que nos atrapan e nos sosteñen, sobre se iso que somos é tamén o que queremos ser.
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The Dear Ones is a book about a woman who, five years after giving birth, decides to have an abortion. A mother full of guilt, who does not fit into the imposed canon. It is a book in which the protagonist defends the freedom of choice: to continue to be herself and to be a mother at the same time.
The idea of guilt in motherhood, the obligation to feel a certain way, the loneliness implicit in all processes that involve taking in emotions that are considered wrong or atavistic, and an enormous isolation that is invisible to others, hover over the pages of the book.
Berta Dávila’s prose is transparent, simple and precise. But its skeleton is made up of a temporal braid in which a writer recalls the birth and the first months of her son’s life, just when, five years later, she has decided to have an abortion and not to have her second. She does this with a slimmed-down style and a direct structure, without any rhetorical flourishes. Everything is bones.
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