| “Women everywhere are prisoners of tradition, of an unwanted marriage, of a violent family, of a of a discriminator. From China to Jordan, from Nigeria to California and to our ‘civil’ Europe, there are echoes of violence and oppression in the stories narrated by Maraini. The pain of women from different worlds who are offended in their person, dignity and liberty. Hurried Steps
is not only about inexplicable violence, but tells of a more complicated whole, a desert of relationships and a representation of the male body and its desire forced into the category of basic instinct, imposed through violence or money. |
