{"product_id":"pathemata","title":"Pathemata","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt’s not the dream that matters, it’s the telling of the dream – the words you choose, the risks you take in externalising your mind\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends with chronic pain, and with a pandemic raging in the background, she sets out to examine the literal and symbolic role of the mouth in the life of a writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMerging dreams and dailies, \u003cem\u003ePathemata \u003c\/em\u003erecounts the narrator’s tragicomic search to alleviate her suffering, a search that eventually becomes a reckoning with various forms of loss – the loss of intimacy, the loss of her father and the loss of a pivotal friend and mentor. In exacting, distilled prose, her account blurs the lines between embodied, unconscious and everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith characteristic precision, humour and compassion, Nelson explores the limits of language to describe experience, while also offering a portrait of an unnerving and isolating time in our shared history. A stunning, original experiment in interiority by the author of \u003cem\u003eBluets \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Argonauts\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePathemata i\u003c\/em\u003es a personal and poetic reckoning with pain and loss, both physical and emotional, as well as an uncanny meditation on love, affliction and resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maggie Nelson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964223418415,"sku":"9781911717454","price":899.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9781911717454.jpg?v=1771325909","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/pathemata","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}