Mother for Dinner

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Pues que obtendríamos una novela tan divertida, a la par que realista y deprimente, como es “Mamá para cenar”. Não costumo incluir aqui os livros que traduzo, mas sendo um romance e tendo achado as primeiras páginas hilariantes, achei que o poderia incluir na lista de livros que leio por prazer. Though well-written and humorous, I feel the ability to enjoy this book is dependent on how much casual bigotry you can stomach before it stops feeling like satire and starts feeling excessive.

Cuando la madre fallece, sus 13 hijos deberán comérsela para cobrar la herencia, siguiendo con las costumbres de su pueblo. Qué pasaría al reunir en una historia a un pueblo caníbal que representa el concepto de minoría social y ponerlo en una situación en la que para poder heredar la herencia de su madre fallecida deben comérsela siguiendo la tradición de su pueblo que está prácticamente extinto?Would recommend for readers who are interested in reading about the constraints of identity, especially cultural/ethnic minorities. Seventh is one of her sons who has broken free but is drawn back as the family gathers for Mudd’s death – after which, by tradition, they are expected to eat her.

Little Zero (girl after my own heart) --felt that if somebody read this story 100 years from now and believed a word of it they would be idiots just like all the siblings. Fick bättre förståelse för saker som assimilering, utanförskap, känslan av att behöva värna de som är ”våra egna” och det som är ”vårt”. In this book, he pursues another version of the same theme: the intolerable weight of history, of its deadening solemnity, and the individual’s rage to throw it off. I loved the first third of the book, stuck with the middle part to see what would happen and got bored with the final third. However, toward the end the grotesquerie got just a bit much for me and rather obscured what Auslander was trying to say.His work, often confronting his Orthodox Jewish background, has been featured on Public Radio International's This American Life and in The New Yorker. l’élément déclencheur qui va remettre beaucoup de choses en question n’est autre que la mort de la matriarche qui doit être mangée par ses propres enfants afin de perpétuer la tradition. Shalom Auslander's Mother for Dinner is an outrageously tasty comedy about identity and inheritance, the things we owe our families and the things we owe ourselves. Of practical concern, she’s six-foot-two and weighs over thirty stone – even divided up between Seventh and his eleven brothers, that's a lot of red meat. En algún momento, el hincapié en la breve historia de los caníbales se me ha hecho un poco repetitivo.

turns his taboo-shattering satiric gaze to cannibalism in this outrageous, salty take on contemporary culture.

Irony is used heavily in the narrative - a simple example being the American flags that are made in Chine and how that is developed.