From her home in Paris, Lina recalls the story of three women whose
lives unfold in the conservative city of Barranquilla in Colombia.
Amongst parties at the Country Club and strolls along the promenade
in Puerto Colombia, unfurls a story of sensuality supressed by
violence; a narrative of oppression in which Dora, Catalina and
Beatriz are victims of a patriarchal system living in and among the
fragile threads of the fabric of society. In Lina's obsessive
recounting of the past, this masterful novel transforms anecdotes
of a life into an absolute view of the world, a profound panorama
of Colombian society towards the end of the 50s. Written from
personal memories and historical research, this is a novel that is
both precise and poetic, a novel that immortalises-from the distant
perspective of its narrator-the events that took place in a small
seaside town. Distancing herself from her contemporaries of the
Latin-American literary boom with a boldly feminist narrative,
Marvel Moreno has created a world that both mirrors the close-up,
private lives of the people of Barranquilla and the human condition
itself. *WHAT NETGALLEY READERS ARE SAYING* "Just delightful."
"Full of a fierce fightback against generations of misogyny and
toxic masculinity. This book is powerful." "A wonderfully written
and sensually feminist novel." "I'd read Moreno again like a shot."
"There's something deliciously unexpected, even subversive about
Moreno's prose."
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