In a new reading block in Cadena de Noticias, the writer and political scientist, Irina Bondarenco recommended the work “Bergman’s Girls” by Agnes Gurubi. The literary proposal is a compilation of all the author’s ancestorsdifferent strong and brave women who had to face the Jewish genocide of World War II and exile.
The work is the author’s first book, however, it is already considered a “Best Seller” due to the impact that the research carried out by Gurubi had on the world.
“This book is a kind of autobiography, but it talks about different women, there are 4 generations of women.”
Out of curiosity, Bondarenco mentioned that an aunt of the author arrived in Argentina after being exiled.
The political scientist assured that The book is clearly feminist, since only at the beginning of the work does it begin by stating that “men were invisible in our family.” According to the manuscript, in those 4 generations of women, men did not exist due to the war context, they were alcoholics, suffered from post-traumatic stress or even died in concentration camps. It was the women who ran the family.
Likewise, Bondarenco read a fragment of the work: “In my family only women are present, those that belong to the past have already died but are also present, my great-great-grandmother with her 3 husbands, my great-grandmother with her 6 daughters and here with me is my grandmother who never spoke about anything, my mother, sister and her daughters, and I with my two daughters breathe together in this story. “Women who never met but united we feel united by an invisible thread.”
In the story, the person telling the story is a woman named “Ana”, however it was noted that it is Agnes.
