Euphoria, Elin Cullhed
Euphoria, Elin Cullhed
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Euphoria

Author: Elin Cullhed, Jennifer Hayashida

Narrator: Kelly Burke

Unabridged: 9 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/13/2022

Categories: Fiction, Family Life


Synopsis

A woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, and she struggles between being the wife and mother she is bound to be and wanting to do and be so much more.

The woman in question is Sylvia Plath in the final year of her life, reimagined in fictive form by Elin Cullhed, who seizes the flame of Plath's blistering, creative fire in Euphoria, lending a voice to women everywhere who stand with one foot in domesticity and the other in artistic creation.

As Plath's marriage to Ted Hughes unravels through the heady days of their first summer in Devon together, Sylvia turns increasingly to writing to express her pain and loss, yet also her resilience and power. She has decided to die, but the art she creates in her final weeks will set her name, and the world, ablaze.

About Elin Cullhed

Elin Cullhed made her debut in 2019 with her critically lauded YA novel The Gods (published in Sweden as Gudarna). Euphoria is her first novel for adults. Cullhed became obsessed with the life and work of Sylvia Plath when she found herself in a similar position: mother to several young children, wife of another writer, struggling to find space and time for her own work. Euphoria is a meticulously researched work of historical fiction, drawing extensively from Plath's own journals and work from that time. Elin lives in Sweden.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Terrie on December 14, 2022

"Euphoria" by Elin Cullhed is a Women's Literary Fiction Story! I knew little about Sylvia Plath before I decided to listen to this audiobook. I've heard of her only novel "The Bell Jar", which I've never read, and I'm aware she wrote poetry, and lastly, that she took her own life at a fairly young a......more

Goodreads review by Karenina on November 27, 2021

Eufori är en litterär fantasi om den amerikanska författaren Sylvia Plath som skrivit den virtuosa Glaskupan. Den här romanen utspelar sig under Plaths sista levnadsår, då äktenskapet med författaren Ted Hughes kraschade, strax innan hon valde att avsluta sitt liv. När jag googlar för att få reda på......more

Goodreads review by Evelina on April 06, 2021

Eg 3,5. Ironiskt nog hade jag nog föredragit om den här romanen tagit bort Sylvia Plath som förebild för dess fiktiva dito som huvudperson. Jag förstår inte riktigt grejen med att skriva en fantasi kring en verklig person, visst är Plath en komplex och lockande person och visst fångar romanen en bild......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on August 02, 2022

Jag har svårt att se poängen med att skriva en hypotetisk historia om en människa som faktiskt har funnits. Läser då mycket hellre en biografi, där jag vet att allt är sant. Det här mellantinget mellan fantasi och verklighet lockar egentligen inte mig. Jag har samma känslor för Eufori som jag har fö......more

Goodreads review by Aija on January 13, 2024

Zviedru autores Ēlinas Kullhēdas literārā fikcija par amerikāņu autores Silvijas Plātas pēdējo dzīves gadu ir mana šī gada pirmā pieczvaigžņu grāmata. Izcili uzrakstīta proza par sievieti, kas dzīvo starp būšanu sev un citiem. Tas, kā grāmatas autorei ir izdevies šķietami ietiekties Silvijas Plātas p......more