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A book of ambiguous genre and delicate, playful wisdom, Recipes for Sad Women is not a novel and not a cookbook. But should you wish to know what food to prepare in the case of sobbing or of nervousness, what the closest thing to dinosaur meat is (and therefore the best remedy for guilt), or what to eat when you are perfectly healthy and enjoying reciprocated love, you will nd no better collection of recipes on the market. An acclaimed novelist, essayist, journalist and translator, Abads eccentric, sensual and wry guide is neither unserious, nor entirely plausible in its advice. Elegant, melancholic, funny and full of morsels of insight, it is deftly and movingly instructional on the proper appreciation of sadness.

Recipes for Sad Women

H CTOR A BAD
PUSHKIN PRESS

Recipes for Sad Women

Hctor Abad

H CTOR A BAD

Recipes for Sad Women

July 5th, 2012 Pushkin Press Collection Flapped Paperback, 10; eBook 6.99

P USHKIN P RESS

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I store up what I have read by Hctor Abad like spherical, polished, luminous little balls of bread, ready for when I have to walk through a vast forest in the night-time. M ANUEL R IVAS

The most unusual of cookbooks I store up what I have read by Hctor Abad like spherical, polished, luminous little balls of bread, ready for when I have to walk through a vast forest in the night-time. Manuel Rivas This is a book for life. Written by the acclaimed novelist, poet and essayist Hctor Abad with profound insight and razor-sharp wit, Recipes for Sad Women is Abads experiment in literary medicine whose cure is in the air the words exhale. In this small and deeply felt book, Abads refreshingly direct narrator reassures, inspires, amuses and moves in equal measure as he guides us in seventy recipes through lifes obstacles from ugliness to virginity, from impotence to death. Are you feeling ashamed? Eat triceratops horn, boiled for three weeks. Have you woken up to a bad face day? The best thing is to poke your face outside in the sun for ten minutes, wait for nightfall and sleep for twelve hours. Sleep and sun and hope will work marvels for the next day. Are you melancholic? The remedy is cauliflower in the mist, seasoned with salty tears. If you are, however, overwhelmed with grief, dont stint on tears, splash around in the pain with as much intensity as you did before in pleasure. This is a lyrical and deliciously sharp culinary treatise on human fragility and hopefulness, infused with a great love for human kind to be read with a bowl of rose petal icecream. Or just a glass of water. The author Hctor Abad Faciolince is a highly acclaimed prize-winning Colombian novelist, poet, essayist, editor and translator. He is one of a new generation of exciting and iconoclastic Colombian writers, whose writing is characterized by a wide range of styles and subjects. Oblivion: A Memoir, Abads beautiful and devastating tribute to his father who was murdered by Colombian paramilitaries in 1987 was published in English in 2011. Hctor Abad is available for interview.
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