PhilippinesISBN: 978-0-7456-4815-6
Hardcover
244 pages
February 2011, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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The Guardian
"The cross-cultural connections multiply and the image of the
almond is sent back to us from everywhere, as though by telepathy.
Cixous's vision snaps into focus: the almond is her sensory
acrostic for the Proustian madeleine. Its 'telepathic' attraction
for its lost other half, if we can tune into it, has the power to
body forth the world."
Times Literary Supplement
"A fascinating text, whose highly personal exploration of the
author's passion for certain books opens onto a
consideration of the relationship between reading and childhood in
general."
Mairéad Hanrahan, University College London
"Read this enchanted book before it is too late to learn that
childhood is indispensable for true reading, that the truth arrives
too late, and that through the prison bars of ‘too late' lies
the path - the telepathic path - to happiness. Each step
counts."
Sarah Wood, University of Kent