"Playful on the surface, dark and disturbing in its depths."--J.M.
Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature
**
"Wonderfully atmospheric and evocative, Dimópulos's latest is
exceedingly satisfying."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review**
A new mother holds her month-old son for the first time, but her body
betrays her with an absence of feeling. Disoriented, she wanders with
her partner around their plant-filled Buenos Aires apartment. Set over
the course of an evening, and a lifetime, Imminence shifts seamlessly
between the present and the past. Little by little, her world begins to
unravel.
In a dreamlike space composed of overlapping vignettes, Irina retraces
the mirrored paths of a life filled with images that swell and recede,
recalling the intimacies and anxieties she has shared with her female
friends, and with her male lovers: Pedro, Ivan, and the sinister Cousin.
Feeling herself caught in a web of obligations, she insists time and
again: "I'm not a woman."
Mariana Dimópulos's mesmerising novel reinforces her standing as one of
the most expressive and inventive of contemporary Latin American
writers.