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Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with liquid gold, thereby highlighting and celebrating the object's past. In this powerful and personal novel, Senka Maric uses kintsugi as a lens through which to interrogate ideas of illness and recovery. Body Kintsugi opens as our protagonist's husband is leaving the family home. Lying awake in her bed, amidst the wreckage left by his departure, she finds a lump in her armpit. This discovery leads to a cancer diagnosis and the invasive, life-altering treatments that follow. Written in raw and immediate prose, the narrative moves easily between the present tense and scattered memories of her girlhood. The result is an intimate, insightful account of the difficulties of adolescence, ongoing patriarchal attitudes in Bosnian society, motherhood, illness and the relationship of a woman to her body, as it changes into something new - and yet, is still hers.
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Senka Marić was born in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1972. She is a writer, poet and editor and is the author of three poetry collections and two novels: Body Kintsugi (2018), and Gravities (2021). She is also the editor of the online literary magazine Strane. She has received numerous awards for her writing, including the Zija Dizdarević Short Story Prize in 2000 and the European Knight of Poetry Prize in 2013. Body Kintsugi was awarded the prestigious Meša Selimović Prize for the best novel published in 2018 in the region of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro. It is her first book to be translated into English.
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