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Witches - A Novel
Brenda Lozano; Translated by Heather Cleary
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R452
R374
Discovery Miles 3 740
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Witches - A Novel (Hardcover)
Brenda Lozano; Translated by Heather Cleary
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R709
R590
Discovery Miles 5 900
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Witches (Hardcover)
Brenda Lozano
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R531
R433
Discovery Miles 4 330
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A remarkable novel by one of the most exciting new voices in Latin
America today This is the story of who Feliciana is, and of who
Paloma was. I had wanted to get to know them, but I realised right
away that the people I needed to know better were my sister Leandra
and my mother. Myself. I came to understand that you can't really
know another woman until you know yourself... Weaving together two
parallel narratives, Witches tells the story of Feliciana, an
indigenous curandera or healer, and Zoe, a journalist: two women
who meet through the murder of Feliciana's cousin Paloma. In the
tiny village of San Felipe in Jalisco province, where traditional
ways and traditional beliefs are a present reality, Feliciana tells
the story of her life, her community's acceptance of her as a
genuine curandera and the difficult choices faced by her joyful and
spirited cousin Paloma who is both a healer and a Muxe - a trans
woman. Growing up in Mexico City, Zoe attempts to find her way in a
society straitjacketed by its hostile macho culture. But it is
Feliciana's and Paloma's stories that draw her own story out of
her, taking her on a journey to understanding her place in the
world and the power of her voice. This captivating novel of two
Mexicos envisions the writer as a healer and offers a generous and
distinctly female way of understanding the complex world we all
inhabit. Translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary
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Witches (Paperback)
Brenda Lozano
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R347
R285
Discovery Miles 2 850
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A bewitching novel by Brenda Lozano, one of the most prominent
voices of the new generation of Latin American writers. 'You can't
really know another woman until you know yourself.' Weaving
together two parallel narratives, this is the story of Feliciana,
an indigenous curandera (healer), and of Zoe, a journalist: two
women drawn together by the murder of Feliciana's cousin Paloma. In
the tiny village of San Felipe in Jalisco province, where
traditional ways of life and belief are a present reality,
Feliciana tells the story of her life, her community's acceptance
of her as a genuine curandera and the difficulties faced by her
cousin Paloma who is a Muxe (both male and female), in her case a
trans woman. Growing up in Mexico City, the heart of modern Mexico,
Zoe attempts to find her way in a hostile world made for men, as
she reflects on what drew her to Feliciana and Paloma, and her own
relationship with the innate powers of a curandera. This
extraordinary novel envisions the writer as healer, one who uses El
Lenguaje (Language) to read El Libro (The Book) that contains the
mystery of the world, and offers a generous and distinctly female
way of understanding the complex world we all inhabit. Translated
from the Spanish by Heather Cleary
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MAKE X (Paperback)
Joel Craig, Sarah Dodson, Kamilah Foreman, Sarah Kramer, Brenda Lozano; Foreword by …
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R837
R699
Discovery Miles 6 990
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MAKE X collects memorable work published throughout the last ten
years by beloved Chicago literary magazine MAKE. Through fiction,
nonfiction, poetry, and reviews, alongside new visual art
portfolios, interviews, and stories from the editors, MAKE X honors
a decade of storytelling and literary rabble-rousing in Chicago.
A remarkable novel by one of the most exciting new voices in Latin
America today This is the story of who Feliciana is, and of who
Paloma was. I had wanted to get to know them, but I realised right
away that the people I needed to know better were my sister Leandra
and my mother. Myself. I came to understand that you can't really
know another woman until you know yourself... Weaving together two
parallel narratives, Witches tells the story of Feliciana, an
indigenous curandera or healer, and Zoe, a journalist: two women
who meet through the murder of Feliciana's cousin Paloma. In the
tiny village of San Felipe in Jalisco province, where traditional
ways and traditional beliefs are a present reality, Feliciana tells
the story of her life, her community's acceptance of her as a
genuine curandera and the difficult choices faced by her joyful and
spirited cousin Paloma who is both a healer and a Muxe - a trans
woman. Growing up in Mexico City, Zoe attempts to find her way in a
society straitjacketed by its hostile macho culture. But it is
Feliciana's and Paloma's stories that draw her own story out of
her, taking her on a journey to understanding her place in the
world and the power of her voice. This captivating novel of two
Mexicos envisions the writer as a healer and offers a generous and
distinctly female way of understanding the complex world we all
inhabit. Translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary
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Loop (Paperback)
Brenda Lozano; Translated by Annie McDermott
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R345
Discovery Miles 3 450
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Winner PEN Translates Award (UK) Recovering from an unspecified
accident, the narrator of Loop finds herself in waiting rooms of
different kinds: airport departure lounges, doctors' surgeries, and
above all at home, awaiting the return of her boyfriend, who has
travelled to Spain following the death of his mother. Loop is a
love story told from the perspective of a contemporary Penelope
who, instead of weaving and unravelling her shroud, writes and
erases her thoughts in her 'ideal' notebook. At once, funny and
thought-provoking, her thoughts range from her stationery
preferences to the different scales on which life is lived, while a
cast of unlikely characters cross the page, from Proust to a
mysterious dwarf, from a dreamy cat to David Bowie singing 'Wild is
the Wind'. Written in an assured, irreverent style, Loop is the
journal of an absence, one in which the most minute or whimsical
observations open up universes. Combining aphoristic fragments with
introspective narrative, and evoking Italo Calvino and Fernando
Pessoa in its playfulness and wry humour, this original reflection
on relationships, solitude and the purpose of writing offers a
glimpse of contemporary life in Mexico City, while asking what it
really means to find our place in the world.
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