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The Wonders (Paperback)
Elena Medel; Translated by Lizzie Davis, Thomas Bunstead
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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.
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The Wonders (Hardcover)
Elena Medel; Translated by Lizzie Davis, Thomas Bunstead
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R380
Discovery Miles 3 800
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'A poet's novel, delicate but strong' Hilary Mantel 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 her 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.
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