{"product_id":"nine-moons-paperback","title":"Nine Moons - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGabriela Wiener\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJessica Powell\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Best Nonfiction of 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the daring Peruvian essayist and provocateur behind \u003ci\u003eSexographies\u003c\/i\u003e comes a fierce and funny exploration of sex, pregnancy, and motherhood that delves headlong into our fraught fascination with human reproduction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen play all the time with the great power that's been conferred upon us: it's fun to think about reproducing. Or not reproducing. Or walking around in a sweet little dress with a round belly underneath that will turn into a baby to cuddle and spoil. When you're fifteen, the idea is fascinating, it attracts you like a piece of chocolate cake. When you're thirty, the possibility attracts you like an abyss.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGabriela Wiener is not one to shy away from unpleasant truths or to balk at a challenge. She began her writing career by infiltrating Peru's most dangerous prison, going all in at swingers clubs, ingesting ayahuasca in the Amazon jungle. So at 30, when she gets unexpectedly pregnant, she looks forward to the experience the way a mountain climber approaches a precipitous peak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a scientist's curiosity and a libertine's unbridled imagination, Wiener hungrily devours every scrap of information and misinformation she encounters during the nine months of her pregnancy. She ponders how pleasure and pain always have something to do with things entering or exiting your body. She laments that manuals for pregnant women don't prepare you for ambushes of lust or that morning sickness is like waking up with a hangover and a guilty conscience all at once. And she tries to navigate the infinity of choices and contradictory demands a pregnant woman confronts, each one amplified to a life-and-death decision.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile pregnant women are still placed on pedestals, or used as political battlegrounds, or made into passive objects of study, Gabriela Wiener defies definition. With unguarded humor and breathtaking directness, \u003ci\u003eNine Moons\u003c\/i\u003e questions the dogmas, upends the stereotypes, and embraces all the terror, beauty, and paradoxes of the propagation of the species.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGabriela Wiener\u003c\/strong\u003e (Lima, 1975) is author of the \u003cem\u003ecrónicas\u003c\/em\u003e collections \u003cem\u003eSexografías, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eNueve Lunas, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eMozart, la iguana con priapismo y otras historias\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eLlamada perdida.\u003c\/em\u003e Her work also includes the poetry collection \u003cem\u003eEjercicios para el endurecimiento del espíritu\u003c\/em\u003e. Her latest book is \u003cem\u003eDicen de mí\u003c\/em\u003e (2017). She writes regularly for the newspapers \u003cem\u003eEl País\u003c\/em\u003e (Spain) and \u003cem\u003eLa República \u003c\/em\u003e(Peru). She also writes for several American and European magazines, such as \u003cem\u003eEtiqueta Negra\u003c\/em\u003e (Peru), \u003cem\u003eAnfibia\u003c\/em\u003e (Argentina), \u003cem\u003eCorriere della Sera \u003c\/em\u003e(Italy), \u003cem\u003eXXI \u003c\/em\u003e(France), and \u003cem\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/em\u003e (United States). In Madrid, she worked as editor of the Spanish edition of \u003cem\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/em\u003e. She left the magazine in 2014 to work on her first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Translator: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJessica Powell\u003c\/strong\u003e received her BA in International Studies from Vassar College, her MA in Latin American Studies from Stanford University, and completed her Ph.D. in UCSB's Department of Spanish and Portuguese, specializing in literary translation and twentieth-century Latin American Literature. Since completing her doctorate in 2006, she has published dozens of translations of literary works by a wide variety of Latin American writers. She was the recipient of a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship in support of her translation of Antonio Benítez Rojo's novel \u003cem\u003eWoman in Battle Dress\u003c\/em\u003e (City Lights, 2015), which was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Translation. Her translation of \u003cem\u003eWicked Weeds\u003c\/em\u003e by Pedro Cabiya (Mandel Vilar Press, 2016), was named a finalist for the 2017 Best Translated Book Award and made the longlist for the 2017 National Translation Award. Her translation, the first-ever into English of Pablo Neruda's book-length poem, \u003cem\u003eventure of the infinite man\u003c\/em\u003e, was published by City Lights Books in October of 2017. Recent translations include Edna Iturralde's award-winning book, G\u003cem\u003ereen Was my Forest\u003c\/em\u003e, published in September, 2018. Jessica has been an adjunct Spanish Professor at Santa Barbara City College, and also works as a subtitler, editor and adapter for film and television. She lives in Santa Barbara with her husband, Abe Powell, and their two children, Olivia and Leo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 04, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42699333304383,"sku":"9781632060730","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/3984362ac1c8ebf1b76d411dbc01465b.webp?v=1765013252","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/nine-moons-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}