The 3 best books by Sarah Waters

About "Carol", a novel by Patricia Highsmith Presented under a pseudonym in 1952 as a detective novel with a lesbian theme, we address today a leading author in the already openly recognized lesbian literature.

Because sarah waters It is one of the most devoted pens to the cause of the lesbian as its own, consistent narrative field, with weight as a main argument, to ultimately naturalize love between women. Forming around the idea of ​​lesbian love, yes, the most varied plots that we can imagine to compose a fascinating whole.

For Sarah Waters (as for so many authors of LGBT books, by extension) is not so much about addressing a romantic gender or erotic around other forms of love different from the general ones. It is more a matter of naturalizing the story of female homosexuality (or of any other form of sexuality discordant with the mediocrity), in order to integrate it into any thematic setting with overtones of a reading identification from something as intimate and so necessarily free as is the sexuality. If in addition to Waters you want to be interested in more authors, here you have other lesbian books.

The essential thing in the case of Sarah Waters is that it is already read by many, many lesbian women around the world and her commendable delivery has brought her great satisfaction in recognition as the great storyteller that she is. As it shows three buttons ...

Sarah Waters' Top 3 Recommended Novels:

The luster of the pearl

Here you also have a review of The Pearl luster. Nancy Astley represents the paradigm of the discovery of sexuality when this dawn of inner nature faces the edges of difference.

The nineteenth-century setting (in the Victorian era) offers a scene of lights and shadows in which the world seems to be splitting in two; even more so in a London to which the young Nancy travels from her coastal town to plunge fully into the dark, behind the shadow of a love.

The city accommodates all types of tendencies, only some are buried in a kind of underworld where everyone can release what is understood as vices, including homosexuality. It is in that London that Nancy begins to completely rediscover herself, waiting for a complete liberation that makes her love and her new aspirations compatible.

Affinity

Waters achieves in this story, also centered on the XNUMXth century, an intimacy that goes far beyond a possible awareness-raising intention about homosexuality.

Reading the story of Margaret and Selina, you consider as if that will to demand was already overcome. Because you find a story of souls around the darkness of omens that seem to further ignite the passion of the two women of fiery spirits.

Love is the best form of protest against injustice; in this case those that Margaret and, above all, Selina go through in her imprisonment as punishment for a kind of modern witchcraft trial.

The flash of difference, the prison environment ... all this awakens greater feelings of humanity and enhances an eroticism of maximum sexual charge. The spirits of Selina will drag you into this moving and transgressive story.

False identity

In the case of Sarah Waters, the setting back to the uses and customs of the nineteenth century, ends up becoming a very rich intrahistory about those limits of the dominant morality and the internal practices of each one.

Richard Rivers's large house to which the orphan Sue Trinder is taken ends up becoming a scene of supposed amorality, portrayed as such when we encounter "abominable" practices for those days in the face of abuses admitted in petit committee.

Sue and Maud share orphanhood and lack of protection in the face of a world in which men like the eccentric nobleman Richard Rivers or Maud's uncle consider that they can govern any aspect of women, almost children, like the newcomer Sue and the already resident Maud, the young man awaiting an abominable fate written by Richard Rivers, who only longs to marry her to make the young woman's considerable dowry his own.

Two girls faced with the centripetal force of destiny traced for them but who can conjure up so that everything ends up jumping through the air. Intensity, eroticism, sexuality, prejudices and many other details that make this novel an unforgettable suspense plot.