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Buch (Softcover): Belletristik
The Rain & Her Suitcase
Verlag:
Independently Published Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35484586
EAN: 9798188345839
Erhältlich:
Nicht auf Lager
Zustellung: Fr, 30.10.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 20.10
Beschreibung
"Where is she going. Not where has she been. Where is she going. ". On a rainy afternoon, in a café at the edge of a Sahelian town, an old writer opens a book. On its cover: a woman standing in the rain, a suitcase at her feet. Inside its pages, a grandmother has spent a lifetime tending a jacaranda whose petals always return to the tree, and sankofa birds - the ones that fly forward while facing backward - have set out to find a granddaughter not yet born. Somewhere, in a story that may or may not be this one, a woman is already walking. Her name is Gisela. After years in a marriage that taught her body to move without touching the walls, to answer questions that were not quite questions, to dream quietly so as not to wake him - she packs a suitcase three times before packing it finally. She walks into the rain and does not look back. The rain follows her anyway - not to punish, but to water something she cannot yet name. In the house of her grieving mother, beside a man who has waited sixteen years, Gisela will help unravel a silence thirty-five years deep: a length of cloth woven instead of spoken, and a father's name that still belongs to a river. Whether she is the granddaughter the birds went looking for, whether the grandmother in the writer's book is the grandmother in her blood, the novel never quite says. What it insists on is this: the suitcase is not a burden. It is the seed. Carried by the music of the djembe, the kora, and the balafon, THE RAIN & HER SUITCASE. is a lyrical novel of leaving and returning, of ancestral memory and the slow, unhurried healing of a woman's body and a family's grief - a story that, like the rain, does not end. It learns how to return.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Mwinmaalu A Somdah
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 132