Carme Riera

The intimate testimony of a pregnant woman, a global reflection on motherhood and the female condition.

An uncommon contribution, far from romantic and sugary clichés of the experience of pregnancy and motherhood in all its dimensions, from the most personal to the social, with the sensitivity of a great writer.

Temps d’una espera is the diary that the author wrote more than thirty-five years ago when she found out she was pregnant for the second time. From this thread, we learn about the thoughts, sensations, and feelings that, day after day, emanate from a woman expecting a child. A woman who claims motherhood as an intrinsic condition of women, and who, far from romanticisms, explores the experience of pregnancy as a consciously lived experience, assumed with intelligence.

“Long before the narrative shelves were filled with a topic as overlooked by male hegemony as motherhood, Riera published Temps d’una espera.” Ara