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| Original Title: | Siyah Süt |
| ISBN: | 0670022640 (ISBN13: 9780670022649) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Turkey |
Elif Shafak
Hardcover | Pages: 267 pages Rating: 3.7 | 10608 Users | 1563 Reviews
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| Title | : | Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within |
| Author | : | Elif Shafak |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 267 pages |
| Published | : | April 28th 2011 by Viking (first published December 2007) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. Feminism. Asian Literature. Turkish Literature |
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An acclaimed Turkish novelist's personal account of balancing a writer's life with a mother's life. After the birth of her first child in 2006, Turkish writer Elif Shafek suffered from postpartum depression that triggered a profound personal crisis. Infused with guilt, anxiety, and bewilderment about whether she could ever be a good mother, Shafak stopped writing and lost her faith in words altogether. In this elegantly written memoir, she retraces her journey from free-spirited, nomadic artist to dedicated but emotionally wrought mother. Identifying a constantly bickering harem of women who live inside of her, each with her own characteristics--the cynical intellectual, the goal-oriented go-getter, the practical-rational, the spiritual, the maternal, and the lustful--she craves harmony, or at least a unifying identity. As she intersperses her own experience with the lives of prominent authors such as Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Alice Walker, Ayn Rand, and Zelda Fitzgerald, Shafak looks for a solution to the inherent conflict between artistic creation and responsible parenting. With searing emotional honesty and an incisive examination of cultural mores within patriarchal societies, Shafak has rendered an important work about literature, motherhood, and spiritual well-being.Rating Of Books Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within
Ratings: 3.7 From 10608 Users | 1563 ReviewsRate Of Books Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within
This book has lots of awesome quotes. But it was not the right book for me to read right now, I was just not in the mood and could not really relate to her struggles with marriage and pregnancy blues etc...Excellent. I postponed reading it for so long, but apparently, this was the perfect timing for this book and I. Quite intriguing, what I didn't like at its fullest now was Shafak the fiction writer. I could have been spared the conversations between her and the choir of discordant voices/Thumbelinas/finger-fairies, but then again, I completely understand the need of inserting the dialogues in the book, and maybe if I listen attentive enough I can hear my own Thumbelinas asking for their rights,
Loved this book. It couldv'e been a favourite read.....BUTThere are alternative selves of Elif in the book namely some little women with different names; one is motherly, one is cynical, one is practical and ambitious etc. They were SO ANNOYING. Which is funny since the whole book revolves around these women through which we understand the thoughts in Elif's head.I hated them so much. But I loved ALL aspects of the rest of the book. Thoughts on writing, motherhood, societal expectations of
In Black Milk, Elif Shafak tells her readers about her postpartum depression following the birth of her first child. I think it to be a very sensitive subject to approach. I can't imagine how difficult it must be to open up and tell your insecurities about being a mother to the rest of the world. Especially, when most of the world still assumes that if you are a woman, you will be a mother at some point. That is after all what you were made for, weren't you? Whoever said "one is not born a
I am sad I didn't enjoy this because I have been enjoying reading her novels. This book mainly discusses Writing, Creativity and Motherhood (which I wanted to know what she thought about all three) but it was not discussed in the way I expected it to. It was mainly about her inner voices taking shape and coming to life and meeting her at odd times to discuss the conflicts that are arising. They come up multiple times throughout and take up lots of pages and that is the main thing that threw me
Before reading this book, I found it puzzling how people who were neither mothers or writers recommended it. After all, it's a book on motherhood and writing, how much could they possibly relate? But as I started reading I realized this was a book for anyone who has different aspects to their personality, which is to say everyone. How to reconcile your different inner voices, each with its own distinctive calling. You want to build a career, you want to have a family, you don't want to lose your
i've been reading this book while taking an embryology course at college, so everything collied with each other. pregnency and motherhood and all that period of women life.in the other hand Elif talked in this book about her being a mother-writer and how she want to do everything at the same time.this is a semi biography of Elif.. she talked about parts of her life that effected her choises to write and have children, about all the women writers she find amazing and wanted to become, about her
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