The wonders
Medel, Elena, 1985-2022
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Maria and Alicia are a grandmother and granddaughter who have never met. Decades apart, both are drawn to Madrid in search of work and independence. Maria, scraping together a living as a cleaner and carer, sending money back home for the daughter she hardly knows; Alicia, raised in prosperity until her family was brought low by tragedy, now trapped in a low-paid job and a cycle of banal infidelities. Their lives are marked by precarity, and by the haunting sense of how things might have been different. Through a series of arresting vignettes, Elena Medel weaves together a broken family's story, stretching from the last years of Franco's dictatorship to the 2018 Spanish Women's Strike. Audacious, intimate and shot through with sharp-edged lyricism, The Wonders is a revelatory novel about the many ways that lives are shaped by class, history and feminism; about what has changed for working-class women, and what has remained stubbornly the same.
Main title:
The wonders / Elena Medel ; translated from the Spanish by Lizzie Davis and Thomas Bunstead.
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Imprint:
London : Pushkin Press, 2022.©2022
Collation:
222 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Translated from the Spanish.
ISBN:
9781782276586 (hbk)9781782276586
Dewey class:
863.7
Language:
EnglishSpanish
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BRN:
506345
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | MEDE | Onloan - Due: 08 Oct 2024 |