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The women I think about at night, traveling the paths of my heroes, Mia Kankimäki ; translated by Douglas Robinson

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The women I think about at night, traveling the paths of my heroes, Mia Kankimäki ; translated by Douglas Robinson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The women I think about at night

Oclc number

1139765009

Responsibility statement

Mia Kankimäki ; translated by Douglas Robinson

Sub title

traveling the paths of my heroes

Summary

"What can a forty-something childless woman do? Bored with her life and feeling stuck, Mia Kankimäki leaves her job, sells her apartment, and decides to travel the world, following the paths of the female explorers and artists from history who have long inspired her. She flies to Tanzania and then to Kenya to see where Karen Blixen--of Out of Africa--fame lived in the 1920s. In Japan, Mia attempts to cure her depression while researching Yayoi Kusama, the contemporary artist who has voluntarily lived in a psychiatric hospital for decades. In Italy, Mia spends her days looking for the works of forgotten Renaissance women painters of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and finally finds her heroines in the portraits of Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, and Artemisia Gentileschi. If these women could make it in the world hundreds of years ago, why can't Mia?"--Amazon

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