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Amanda Michalopoulou Gods Wife Trans. Patricia Felisa Barbeito. McLean, Illinois. Dalkey Archive. 2019. 144 pages.
THE TITLE OF Amanda Michalopoulous recent book, Gods Wife, is not deceiving. The novel is about Gods wife, the unnamed narrator who lives, converses, and dines with God. Exquisitely inventive, the novel explores the life not of a pious woman but of an inquisitive, female spirit caught in the web of her creator. In this novel, Michalopoulou marvelously stretches the boundaries of fiction, toying with fictions possibilities and impossibilities and thrusting the reader into a curious exploration of both the world and the self.
The narrative is delivered by the protagonist herself who resolves to share her experience. She was raised by her religious aunt after her parents died in a car accident. On a terribly rainy day, tied to a tree by her playful yet torturous brother, she is snatched from the earthly world;...