Reseña del libro "Breathless: Unspoken Words After Death (en Inglés)"
What last words would you have for your loved ones after death? Suspended in Limbo after her suicide, a mother has words unspoken at death: wisdom for her son on how to love and be loved in return. Only after death can she realize what was unspoken. In Limbo, she is allotted a portion of words to send to her son, which he may dream. She is trapped in this dream-ether of Limbo until her son can receive her words; then she is released. But, he must be able to dream them without desire, without yearning.The first half of the novel is in her voice. She recounts her lovers and her son's conception. As Maimonides said of God -- He can be described only by what He is not -- she describes what not to do with a woman, how not to love a woman, until she speaks of her last and truest love. The second voice is her lover's, as he reminisces, tries to understand why she drove him away, then cut her throat. He does not know that his thoughts can be heard by her, nor that some of her thoughts will be dreamt by him.The last chapter is the son's voice, his yearnings, sense of loss and of being lost.The mother, like a ritual slaughterer, a Shochet, cuts her throat to feel released, to breathe freely.The tone of the book is that of "House of Sand and Fog," "Eyes Wide Shut", or "Vanilla Sky" there is a dreamy, even nightmarish quality, as this woman learns for herself the course of her life in search of love and of what wisdom she wishes to send her son in order for her to be liberated from Limbo. Its tone is like a hand-painted sepia print.
