THE SINGULARITY - Balsam Karam (Fitzcarraldo Editions) rosemary mayer Syrian-born

Syrian-born

Maryse Larivière

they received the same diagnosis a few years later

and is usually the result of an intimate process shared with the people dearest to him

Published as the culmination of an important shift in Patrizio Di Massimo’s practice

THE SINGULARITY - Balsam Karam (Fitzcarraldo Editions) rosemary mayer Syrian-bornIn an unnamed coastal city home to many refugees, a mother of a displaced family searches for her child, calling her name as she wanders along the cliffside road where her daughter used to work. She searches and searches until, devoid of hope and frantic with grief, she throws herself into the sea, leaving her other children behind. Bearing witness to this suicide is another woman on a business trip from a distant country, with a swollen belly that