Shoreless

Nisrin Mbarki

Nisrine Mbarki's life takes place in different languages ​​and on different continents; for her, multilingualism and switching between different perspectives are part of everyday life. In this collection she peels off those layers like an archaeologist and brings together apparent opposites: the earthly and the mystical, the city and nature, the eternal traveling and standing still. With compassion for all that lives, she redraws the world map and explores the boundaries of the different guises she embodies herself: mother, daughter, woman, writer.

Mbarki pulls out all the stops of the language, sometimes suffocating, sometimes liberating, sometimes bombastic, then subdued again; old stories and histories, handed down from generations back, and new ones, which take root quickly in the city that is always on the move. Mbarki shows her powerful, autonomous voice in this idiosyncratic debut.