Pregnant with her second child, Sylvia Plath and her husband Ted Hughes embark on the bucolic project of renovating an old rectory in the country where they can raise their little ones. The world expands and contracts for Sylvia: her life is idyllic on the surface, but her great desire to write about her is constantly frustrated by the obligations of mother and wife. At the same time, she feels completely a prisoner of her love for Ted: without him life has no meaning, but she cannot think, she cannot write while he is near her. Thus, when he decides to leave her to run away with his lover, Sylvia will begin to write frantically in a state of pain, fever and euphoria that will open the poet's stage of greatest artistic splendor, making her name go down in history. The novel, which ends before her suicide in February 1963, tries to reframe the narrative of one of the most famous and infamous writers of the 20th century to focus solely on her life. Euphoria is an extraordinarily modern story, written with fierce intelligence and irreverence, which has earned her the prestigious August Prize and the recognition of the European publishing world, which has hailed her as one of the literary revelations of the year.
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