A book of ambiguous genre and delicate, playful wisdom, Recipes for Sad Women is not a novel and not a cookbook. But should you wish to know what food to prepare in the case of sobbing or of nervousness, what the closest thing to dinosaur meat is (and therefore the best remedy for guilt), or what to eat when you are perfectly healthy and enjoying reciprocated love, you will find no better collection of recipes on the market. An acclaimed novelist, essayist, journalist and translator, Abad's eccentric, sensual and wry guide is neither unserious, nor entirely plausible in its advice. Elegant, melancholic, funny and full of morsels of insight, it is deftly and movingly instructional on the proper appreciation of sadness.
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I store up what I have read by Héctor Abad like spherical, polished, luminous little balls of bread, ready for when I have to walk through a vast forest in the night-time. --Manuel Rivas
This is a book that quietly knows what it is to be human, and to bridge, or reconcile, the gap between body and mind.--Nick Lezard, Guardian
A passion for romantic Borgesianism will be satisfied by Hector Abad's Recipes for Sad Women, cute vignettes which address a darker sadness..-- --Nick Lezard, Guardian Books of the Year 2012
This is a book that quietly knows what it is to be human, and to bridge, or reconcile, the gap between body and mind. --Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian
This is a book that quietly knows what it is to be human, and to bridge, or reconcile, the gap between body and mind.--Nick Lezard, Guardian
A passion for romantic Borgesianism will be satisfied by Hector Abad's Recipes for Sad Women, cute vignettes which address a darker sadness..-- --Nick Lezard, Guardian Books of the Year 2012
This is a book that quietly knows what it is to be human, and to bridge, or reconcile, the gap between body and mind. --Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian
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Héctor Abad was born in Medellín, Colombia, in 1958. He was twelve when he wrote his first stories, going on to win the 1980 Colombian National Short Story Prize at just twenty-one. In 1987 his father was murdered by paramilitaries, and Abad was forced to flee to Italy. While in exile he published his first book, Malos Pensamientos (1991) but it was only upon returning to Colombia in 1993 that he became a fulltime writer. His autobiographical Oblivion: A Memoir has recently become available in English.
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By B. Bankhead
Format:Paperback
I read a review copy of this last weekend. I admit that I was very skeptical at first, because it sounds a bit like another one of those little 'books of happiness' you pick up at the till, but it isn't in the least like that. Abad is a great Colombian writer, with a more interesting literary range than Marquez, so if you haven't read him before this is a great introduction to his work. "Recipes for Sad Women" is philosophical in all the right ways: even though it provides real advice on what to do about problems like grief for a loved one, difficult husbands, crying children, or feeling ugly, it's also very ironic and funny, and sometimes very moving.
I highly recommend - it's short, which is perfect for an evening alone at home!
I highly recommend - it's short, which is perfect for an evening alone at home!
By LizzySiddal
Format:Paperback
Can a man offer convincing advice to a melancholy woman? Is any woman going to accept a man's wisdom?
As you can imagine I read this book with a smile on a face. A cynical smile at first. Then I found myself being vastly entertained. Of course, some of these philosophical snippets are to be taken with a liberal pinch of salt. Others rang true and then, quite unexpectedly I found a couple which gave me a more positive outlook on certain aspects of my own life. Let's just call that the icing on the cake.
(The above is an extract from a fuller review to be found on my blog [...]
As you can imagine I read this book with a smile on a face. A cynical smile at first. Then I found myself being vastly entertained. Of course, some of these philosophical snippets are to be taken with a liberal pinch of salt. Others rang true and then, quite unexpectedly I found a couple which gave me a more positive outlook on certain aspects of my own life. Let's just call that the icing on the cake.
(The above is an extract from a fuller review to be found on my blog [...]
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