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Slash and Burn

Slash and Burn

Hernández, Claudia
Sanches, Julia

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ISBN10: 1911508822
ISBN13: 9781911508823
Publisher: And Other Stories
Published: Jan 5 2021
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.80
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.60
Language: English

Shortlisted for the 2022 Queen Sofía Spanish Institute
Translation Prize

Shortlisted for the Premio Valle-Inclan prize for its translation

Through war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep her daughters safe.
As a girl she sees her village sacked and her beloved father and brothers flee. Her life in danger, she joins the rebellion in the hills, where her comrades force her to give up the baby she conceives. Years later, having outlived countless men, she leaves to find her lost daughter, travelling across the Atlantic with meagre resources. She returns to a community riven with distrust, fear and hypocrisy in the wake the revolution. Hernandez' narrators have the level gaze of ordinary women reckoning with extraordinary hardship. Denouncing the ruthless machismo of combat with quiet intelligence, Slash and Burn creates a suspenseful, slow-burning revelation of rural life in the aftermath of political trauma.

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