Imminence

"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.

Mariana Dimópulos was born in Buenos Aires in 1973. She studied literature at the University of Buenos Aires and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg. She is the author of three novels, including All My Goodbyes and Imminence, as well as short stories and non-fiction, including a critical study on the work of Walter Benjamin. She is a translator from German and English into Spanish, and teaches at the University of Buenos Aires.

Alice Whitmore iis a writer and literary translator living on Gunditjmara country. Her translations from Spanish to English include Mariana Dimópulos's All My Goodbyesand Imminence, Guillermo Fadanelli's See You at Breakfast?, and Xhevdet Bajraj's Collected Poems. She is the translations editor at Cordite Poetry Review and an associate editor at Giramondo.