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The Family
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.95
ISBN13: 9781960385604
Publisher: Open Letter Books
Published: Jan 12 2027
Pages: 220
Language: English
The most devastating, intimate work to date from one of Spain's most prominent authors
There are no secrets in this family! proclaims Damián, the father, triumphantly. A secular idealist obsessed with morality and order, he is blind to the cracks in his home's foundations, the oppression that pervades it, and the elaborate fictions his wife and four children devise to survive it. While he quotes Gandhi and expounds on the virtues of education, charity and thrift, the children retreat into humiliated compliance or seek freedom in the most dangerous of places.
Through a mosaic of interlinked tales, spanning decades, acclaimed Spanish author Sara Mesa turns her unflinching gaze to the family as institution: the ideologies that shape it, the silences that undermine it, and the authority you can never quite escape.
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