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What is Hot Milk about?

This is a richly mythic, colour-saturated tale from the Man Booker - shortlisted author of Swimming Home - Deborah Levy explores the violently primal bond between mother and daughter. Today I dropped my laptop on the concrete floor. It was tucked under my arm and slid out of its black rubber sheath, landing screen-side down. The digital page shattered. Apparently there's a man in the next flyblown town who mends computers. He could send off for a new screen, which would take a month to arrive. Will I still be here in a month? My mother is sleeping under a mosquito net in the next room. Soon she will wake up and shout, 'Sofia, get me a glass of water', and I will get her water and it will be the wrong sort of water. And then after a while I will leave her and return to gaze at the shattered starfield of my screen. Two women arrive in a Spanish village - a dreamlike place caught between the desert and the ocean - seeking medical advice and salvation. One of the strangers suffers from a mysterious illness: spontaneous paralysis confines her to a wheelchair, her legs unusable. The other, her daughter Sofia, has spent years playing the reluctant detective in this mystery, struggling to

Who reads Hot Milk?

Author

Levy, Deborah, author

Publisher

[Toronto]: Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Canada

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780735234123

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction

Rating

3.41 / 5 (413 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14