· This easy-to-read but layered non-fiction book by well-known novelist Elif Shafak is difficult to classify into a neat genre. Not surprisingly, the author warns us in the first few pages in a section tilted Note to Reader –. “This book was written with black milk and white ink – a cocktail of storytelling, motherhood, wanderlust and depression, distilled for several months at room temperature.”.Reviews: 1. In the book “Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within” by Elif shafak, discusses how her life changed after her pregnancy. Elif Shafak was a turkish writer, nomad, and a pacifist until she experienced the devastating feeling of postpartum depression. In September of Shafak gave birth to a baby girl named Sherazad Zelda. · During a voyage on a ferry-boat and seated beside a heavily pregnant woman with two young sons Elif Shafak writes a testament to resist the urge to bear children and devote her life to her writing. She travels to America to fullfil this mission but is none the less pursued by her inner voices in the form of 'finger women' who force her to examine herself and her true feelings/5(10).
Shafak is consumed by creating characters; her harem within are given ridiculous names almost akin to naming dolls. The reader is taken in to her inner world which frankly is not at all interesting and her self indulgent diatribe with these 'selves' comes across as shallow and childish. Free download or read online Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in December , and was written by Elif Shafak. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Hardcover format. The main characters of this non fiction, autobiography story are. Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within Elif Shafak, trans. from the Turkish by Hande Zapsu. stint as a resident at Mount Holyoke College and elsewhere has transformed her.
"In an intimate, affecting memoir, best-selling Turkish writer Shafak (The Forty Rules of Love, ) looks within to find answers to the question of how a woman may balance motherhood and a career. Light years from the standard perspective of supermom versus the world, Shafak relishes her independence and refuses to ignore fears about the impact of marriage and children on her most central self, that of a writer. Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within. 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 , Turkish writer Elif Shafek suffered from postpartum depression that triggered a profound personal crisis. In the book “Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within” by Elif shafak, discusses how her life changed after her pregnancy. Elif Shafak was a turkish writer, nomad, and a pacifist until she experienced the devastating feeling of postpartum depression. In September of Shafak gave birth to a baby girl named Sherazad Zelda.
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