LAS MARAVILLAS / THE WONDERS
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Autor:
ELENA MENDEL
Country:
Spain (ES)
Book Theme:
The new writers under 40
Publisher:
EDITORIAL ANAGRAMA
Publishing Year:
2020
She has published the collections of poems “Mi primer bikini” “Tara and Chatterton” , as well as the notebooks “Vacaciones” and “Un soplo en el corazón”
Her work has been partially translated into Arabic, Armenian, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Basque, Swedish and Swedish, and has been included in numerous anthologies.
She is editor-in-chief of the magazine Eñe and editor of the poetry imprint La Bella Varsovia.
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
Elena Medel’s first novel, a journey through the last decades of Spanish history and a lyrical and honest portrait of two hard-working women.
Alternating between the stories of MarÃa and Alicia, grandmother and daughter, it follows the story of two generations of women who have lived as best they know how and as best they can within their economy and the last decades of Spanish history.
The author shows us two different points of view of facing life, in two different eras with their similarities and differences and how these two women are destined to meet in a march 8 protest.
Las maravillas is a novel about the lack of money: about the way in which the money we don’t have defines us. It is also a novel about care, responsibilities and expectations; about the precariousness that responds not to crisis but to class, and about who or what voices, in what circumstances, will tell the stories that allow us to know our origins and our past.
This is what this dazzling novel, which even before its publication has seduced some of the most prominent international publishers and will be translated into fifteen languages, is about.
