A woman sits there writing, and she feels cold. They look like a kaleidoscope.
Beautiful formations succeed one another, but the picture is never fixed or unambiguous.
Not until the day J is able to see something more than the enticing pictures in the kaleidoscope is she free. That day she stops feeling cold. That day she leaves Cairo in order to continue loving in Finland. Mariposa is Birgitta Boucht's captivating novel about a condition that is the opposite of the black holes in space. Mariposa means butterfly, and it is a concept that becomes an image of how a family, like a swarm of butterflies, move, flutter and touch one another, let birth and death elide with each other.