{"product_id":"empty-wardrobes","title":"Empty Wardrobes","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA previously untranslated classic of Portuguese literature originally published in 1966, Maria Judite de Carvalho’s \u003cem\u003eEmpty Wardrobes\u003c\/em\u003e introduces English-speaking readers to a forgotten and under-appreciated woman writer a la recent publishing sensations Tove Ditlevsen, Lucia Berlin, Natalia Ginzburg, Silvina Ocampo, and Armonia Somers. \u003cem\u003eEmpty Wardrobes\u003c\/em\u003e is tightly plotted and highly entertaining read, a book that, thanks to an ingenious detached narrative technique (one that makes the plot all the more fun to revisit and rethink), is both darkly humorous and devastatingly true.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“There is no doubting the authenticity of Carvalho’s vision and the originality and severity of her voice.” —Joyce Carol Oates, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor ten years Dora has ritualistically mourned her husband's death, a pointless ritual that forced her to rely on support from old friends and acquaintances. Her beloved husband, a “Christ” so principled he rejected any ambition whatsoever as a construct of a corrupt society, succeeded only in leaving Dora and their daughter with nothing. When her mother-in-law reveals a shattering secret about their marriage one night, Dora’s narrative of her own life is destroyed. Three generations of women—Dora, her daughter, and mother-in-law—must navigate a world that has been shaped by the blundering men off in the distance, figures barely present who nonetheless define the lives of the women they would call mother, wife, or lover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNarrated through the gritted teeth of an acquaintance, \u003cem\u003eEmpty Wardrobes\u003c\/em\u003e—Maria Judite de Carvalho’s cutting 1966 novel, translated from Portuguese for the first time by Margaret Jull Costa and introduced by Kate Zambreno—is a tale of women who are trapped within the quiet devastation of a patriarchal society and preyed upon by the ambient savageries that perch in its every crevice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ingram Publisher Services","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67703046963443,"sku":null,"price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/8783\/5037\/files\/emptywardrobes.jpg?v=1791761205","url":"https:\/\/postcardbookshop.com\/products\/empty-wardrobes","provider":"Postcard Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}