The Wonders (Paperback)

Maria and her granddaughter Alicia have never met. Decades apart, both make the same journey 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 a family tragedy, now trapped in a poorly 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 mass feminist protests in contemporary Madrid. Audacious, intimate and shot through with razor-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.

General

Imprint:	Pushkin Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2023
Authors:	Elena Medel
Translators:	Lizzie Davis • Thomas Bunstead (Translator)
Dimensions:	198 x 129mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-78227-659-3
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	Spanish
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-78227-659-9
Barcode:	9781782276593

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