Memoria

By Louise Dupré

Memoria tells the seemingly ordinary story of a woman overwhelmed by grief when her lover abandons her. The loss opens an old wound: some 20 years ago Emma's teenage sister vanished without a trace. Soon Emma will meet another man, but the return to joy is painfully slow. Rarely has the loss of love, as well as the subtle dislocation of a family hit by tragedy, been evoked more poignantly than in this luminous novel. In Memoria's multi-layered narrative, the reader is irresistibly drawn into the slow reconstruction of Emma's outer and inner world, a world of dizzying sensuality, deep sadness, bewitchingly beautiful images, and, ultimately, "the small circle of new beginnings."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889242879
• ISBN13: 9780889242876
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 8.5"