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Soeurs de Misericorde
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Series: La Bleue
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ISBN10: 2234076412
ISBN13: 9782234076419
Publisher: Stock
Published: Nov 8 2021
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
ISBN13: 9782234076419
Publisher: Stock
Published: Nov 8 2021
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
SISTERS IN MISERICORDIA
Under option in China, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Poland
She has no choice, she has to go. In Santa Cruz, everything is closed, nothing moves, not money or people, even fruit rots on the trees. Women leave one after another, heading further and further away. How do you find work or accommodation when you know no one? Nor the language, the streets, the food or the rules?
Azul was born in Bolivia in 1967, among the Andean Indians who speak Quechua, born to a poor family with warm hearts, with eight brothers and sisters. Brown-eyed, yellow-skinned Azul with her plastic sandals was born in a natural paradise, in Chuqui-Chuqui, where the fruit and flowers, colours and tastes flourish within reach of pilfering hands. But can you keep everything from your childhood? Azul is an economic migrant, leaving behind her husband and children, her language and Indian robes, her rites and prayers, only to find rich Europe is cold and selfish. The stony roads and icy waters of the Rio Chico are far better than the high-speed Métro line from Ris-Orangis to Paris.
Does Azul have a choice? And how can she show the rich owners, her bosses, what they don't see of the world?
Colombe Schneck has had two novels published by Stock, L'Increvable Monsieur Schneck and Val de Grâce, and one by Grasset, La Réparation (translated into several languages), as well as a biographical essay, Dix-sept ans.
Under option in China, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Poland
She has no choice, she has to go. In Santa Cruz, everything is closed, nothing moves, not money or people, even fruit rots on the trees. Women leave one after another, heading further and further away. How do you find work or accommodation when you know no one? Nor the language, the streets, the food or the rules?
Azul was born in Bolivia in 1967, among the Andean Indians who speak Quechua, born to a poor family with warm hearts, with eight brothers and sisters. Brown-eyed, yellow-skinned Azul with her plastic sandals was born in a natural paradise, in Chuqui-Chuqui, where the fruit and flowers, colours and tastes flourish within reach of pilfering hands. But can you keep everything from your childhood? Azul is an economic migrant, leaving behind her husband and children, her language and Indian robes, her rites and prayers, only to find rich Europe is cold and selfish. The stony roads and icy waters of the Rio Chico are far better than the high-speed Métro line from Ris-Orangis to Paris.
Does Azul have a choice? And how can she show the rich owners, her bosses, what they don't see of the world?
Colombe Schneck has had two novels published by Stock, L'Increvable Monsieur Schneck and Val de Grâce, and one by Grasset, La Réparation (translated into several languages), as well as a biographical essay, Dix-sept ans.
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