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The Wonders
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ISBN10: 1643753509
ISBN13: 9781643753508
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: Feb 28 2023
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781643753508
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: Feb 28 2023
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
Rhythmic, incantatory . . . Vivid and painfully intimate. --The New York Times Book Review Winner of the Francisco Umbral Prize for Best Book of the Year
A Finalist for the Finestres Award
Now Translated into Fifteen Languages An international sensation, The Wonders follows MarÃa and Alicia through the streets of Madrid as they search for meaning and stability in a precarious world and unknowingly trace each other's footfalls across time. MarÃa moved to the city in 1969, leaving her daughter with her family but hoping to save enough to take care of her. She worked as a housekeeper, then a caregiver, and later a cleaner, and somehow she was always taking care of someone else. Two generations later, in 2018, Alicia was working at the snack shop in Madrid's Atocha train station when it overflowed with female protesters. She couldn't have known that MarÃa was among them. Alicia didn't have time for marches; she was just trying to hang on until the end of her shift. Readers will fall in love with MarÃa and Alicia, whose stories finally converge in the chaos of the protests, the weight of the years of silence hanging thickly in the air between them. The Wonders brings half a century of the feminist movement to life, and launches an inimitable new voice in fiction. Medel's lyrical sensibility reveals her roots as a poet, but her fast-paced and expansive storytelling show she's a novelist ahead of her time.
A Finalist for the Finestres Award
Now Translated into Fifteen Languages An international sensation, The Wonders follows MarÃa and Alicia through the streets of Madrid as they search for meaning and stability in a precarious world and unknowingly trace each other's footfalls across time. MarÃa moved to the city in 1969, leaving her daughter with her family but hoping to save enough to take care of her. She worked as a housekeeper, then a caregiver, and later a cleaner, and somehow she was always taking care of someone else. Two generations later, in 2018, Alicia was working at the snack shop in Madrid's Atocha train station when it overflowed with female protesters. She couldn't have known that MarÃa was among them. Alicia didn't have time for marches; she was just trying to hang on until the end of her shift. Readers will fall in love with MarÃa and Alicia, whose stories finally converge in the chaos of the protests, the weight of the years of silence hanging thickly in the air between them. The Wonders brings half a century of the feminist movement to life, and launches an inimitable new voice in fiction. Medel's lyrical sensibility reveals her roots as a poet, but her fast-paced and expansive storytelling show she's a novelist ahead of her time.
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