The Limits of My Language: Meditations on Depression

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Much has been written about the treatment of depression, but its wider meaning has garnered less attention. Here Eva Meijer draws deeply on her own experiences to offer valuable insight into depression, framing it in a brand new way. She explores how depression can make us grow out of shape over time, like a twisted tree, how we can sometimes remould ourselves in conversation with others, and how to move on from our darkest thoughts.

The Limits of My Language is a poignant, stimulating search for the things, great and small - from philosophy and art to sitting quietly with a cat - that make our lives worth living.

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'From the first sentences you realize that Eva Meijer selects her sentences with care, setting literature, experience and analysis beside one another...One of the best novelists and essayists the Netherlands has to offer' - De Revisor

'On a subject that has in fact been written, sung and talked about extensively, Meijer manages to avoid all cliches. The Limits of my Language shows, despite the title, what language is capable of' - Trouw (five stars)

Author Bio

Eva Meijer is a prizewinning Dutch author, artist, singer, songwriter and philosopher. Bird Cottage, her first novel to be translated into English, was nominated for the BNG and Libris prizes in the Netherlands and is also available from Pushkin Press. Eva Meijer was awarded the Halewijn Prize in 2017 for all of the books she has written so far.