Book, That she whispers, O[LS]

The new novel by one of the most original authors in Brazilian literature portrays the life of Nadejda, the young Russian woman who kept in her memory the poems of her husband killed by Soviet censorship to prevent them from being erased forever from history. In this engaging and poetic novel, Noemi Jaffe tells, in her own words and inventions, the life of Nadejda Mandelstam. Living under Stalinist oppression, Nadejda marries the poet Óssip, who will die in a gulag in Siberia as an enemy of the regime. However, so that the poems that led her husband to disgrace do not disappear, Nadejda memorizes them and always whispers them. It will be these versions that will reach contemporary times. Based on this true story, Noemi Jaffe builds a unique novel about the power of love, the hardships of repression and, above all, about female desire and its constant erasure. “Noemi Jaffe is an archaeologist of words.” — Época “I want Sonia, Vassilisa and Lizotchka to learn to spend the hours whispering things they like, to train their memory to express themselves in a low voice, as if through whispering all the women in Russia communicated in an unknown tune, we then We would form a clandestine network of whispers, which would save nothing, except a little ourselves, but which would stop time and become tangled, causing it to pass less or more slowly through the places where we speak.”