Accabadora
Michela Murgia, 2009
Italy
208 pages
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✔ Sardinian traditions
✔ Women's position in a traditional culture
✔ Mediterranean society
🔽 Review summary 🔽
★★★★★ Accabadora, a woman in Sardinia who ends the suffering of very ill and their families. Is she an angel or a devil? That's not the point any more to them. A book with an unusual dignity.
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The famous Accabadora, the woman who ends it.
It’s very Sardinian, very Mediterranean.
You can almost see with your eyes closed of the dry town with stones, men at the bar and women hurrying to go back home to cook, and the dry field that is brown, ready to ignite a fire from any tiny sparkles.
Maria was adopted by this woman who lives alone since she was small.
Time to time, she dresses completely in black and leave their house in the night – and comes back in the morning and continues the day.
It’s not about right or wrong, or justice or injustice, if she was an angel or devil or death – it’s about if it should be done or not.
In Sardinia it’s understood to be true, that such women did exist.
Even today the problem of euthanasia is not easily talked about and we probably won’t ever find an answer that’s absolute.
This is a book that shows the town’s unsettling state of mind with such a powerful dignity.
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Accabadora [Lingua Italiana]
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