LECTURA FÁCIL / Easy Reading
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Autor:
Cristina García Morales
Country:
Spain (ES)
Book Theme:
The new writers under 40
Publisher:
Editorial Anagrama
Publishing Year:
2018
She has a degree in Law and Political Science, specialising in International Relations.
She represents one of the most committed writers in terms of reflecting on issues such as institutions, the assignment of labels and thus the marginalisation of those who are seen as ‘disabled’, as well as learned history, as she does in her book Easy Reading, now in its 13th edition.
Her short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and literary magazines. In 2017 she was awarded the Montserrat Roig Writing Grant, in 2015 the Han Nefkens Foundation Grant and in 2007 the Antonio Gala Foundation Grant for Young Creators. She is a member of the contemporary dance company Iniciativa Sexual Femenina.
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
It tells the story of the confrontation of four women with different degrees of intellectual disability, who live in a supervised flat in Barcelona, against the state institutions that try to control their lives.
The author reconstructs the story of Nati, Patri, Marga and Ángels from the moment the Catalan Administration decides to carry out the forced sterilisation of one of them in a fragmented narrative that is based on the discourses of power and resistance: the minutes of an anarchist assembly, the minutes of the judicial process, the technique of ‘easy reading’ for people with disabilities and the verbal outbursts of Nati, who has a hilarious and loquacious ‘floodgate syndrome’ that makes her intolerant of all forms of oppression.
It is a radical novel in its ideas, its form and its language. This book is a battlefield: against monogamous, white heteropatriarchy, against institutional and capitalist rhetoric, against activism that uses the trappings of ‘the alternative’ to prop up the status quo.
