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.
Main title:
The wonders / Elena Medel.
Author:
Medel, Elena, 1985-, author
Imprint:
London : Pushkin Press, 2022.
Collation:
224 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Spanish.
ISBN:
9781782276586 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
863.7
Language:
EnglishSpanish
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Related title:
The Wonders [electronic resource] : 'Delicate but strong' Hilary Mantel
BRN:
2257219
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