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Sacred Law
They say that life has waned in my
body, that my veins emptied themselves
like wine presses; I feel only the relief in
my breast after a great sigh!
–Who am I, I ask myself, to have a
child on my knees?
And I answer myself:
–One who loved, and whose love
asked, when she received the kiss, for
eternity.
Let the Earth look at me with this
child in my arms, and bless me; for, yes,
now I’m as fruitful as the palm trees
–Gabriela Mistral
LA SAGRADA LEY
Dicen que la vida ha menguado en
mi cuerpo, que mis venas se vertieron
como los lagares: yo se lo siento el
alivio del pecho despues de un gran
suspiro!
–Quien soy yo, me digo, para tener
un hijo en mis rodillas?
Y yo misma me respondo:
–Una que am, y cuyo amor pidi,
al recibir el beso, la eternidad.
Me mire la Tierra con este hijo en los
Brazos, y me bendiga, pues ya estroy
Fecunda como las palmas.
Gabriela Mistral
Who is Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami is the award winning and best selling author of six books.
What books has Laila Lalami written?
Laila has written the novels, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, Secret Son, The Moor's Account, The Other Americans, and The Dream Hotel.
What awards has Laila Lalami won?
Laila Lalami has won the American Book Award, the Arab American Book Award, the Hurston-Write Legacy Award, a Guggenheim a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship, and a British Council Fellowship. Her work has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Booker Prize, the Women's Prize, and the Edgar Allan Poe Award.