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72 reviews“Executed as precisely & without sentiment as an autopsy…There is no doubting the authenticity of Carvalho’s vision & the originality & severity of her voice, as scathing & pitiless in her depiction of ‘empty’ women as in her depiction of oafish swaggering machismo.” —Joyce Carol Oates, NY Review of Books
“A book about how men betray women, and how women betray each other…a work that does not hesitate to expose the cruelties & power grabs that lie beneath marriage, & how quickly society discards aging women.” —Rhian Sasseen, Paris Review
For ten years Dora has ritualistically mourned her husband’s death, a pointless ritual that forced her to rely on support from old friends & acquaintances. Her beloved husband, a “Christ” so principled he rejected any ambition whatsoever as a construct of a corrupt society, succeeded only in leaving Dora & their daughter with nothing. When her mother-in-law reveals a shattering secret about their marriage one night, Dora’s narrative of her own life is destroyed.
Three generations of women—Dora, her daughter, & her mother-in-law—must navigate a world that has been shaped by the blundering men off in the distance, figures barely present who nonetheless define the lives of the women they would call mother, wife, or lover.
Narrated through the gritted teeth of an acquaintance, Empty Wardrobes—Maria Judite de Carvalho’s cutting 1966 novel, translated from Portuguese for the 1st time by Margaret Jull Costa & introduced by Kate Zambreno—is a tale of women who are trapped within the quiet devastation of a patriarchal society & preyed upon by the ambient savageries that perch in its every crevice.
Maria Judite de Carvalho (1921-1998) is widely considered one of Portugal’s most important writers of the 2nd half of the 20th century. Carv
