Sách - December Breeze - A masterful novel on womanhood in Colombia by Charlotte Coombe (UK edition, paperback)

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Publisher: Independent Alliance

Origin: United Kingdom (Imported)

ISBN 13: 9781787704091

Condition: Brandnew

Binding: paperback

Pages: 448

Dimensons: 210 x 135 x 30 | 400 (gram)

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A masterful novel exploring womanhood, class, and tradition in 1950s Colombia

From her home in Paris, Lina recalls the story of three women whose lives unfold in the conservative city of Barranquilla in Colombia. Amongst parties at the Country Club and strolls along the promenade in Puerto Colombia, unfurls a story of sensuality supressed by violence; a narrative of oppression in which Dora, Catalina and Beatriz are victims of a patriarchal system living in and among the fragile threads of the fabric of society.

In Lina’s obsessive recounting of the past, this masterful novel transforms anecdotes of a life into an absolute view of the world, a profound panorama of Colombian society towards the end of the 50s.

Written from personal memories and historical research, this is a novel that is both precise and poetic, a novel that immortalises—from the distant perspective of its narrator—the events that took place in a small seaside town.

Distancing herself from her contemporaries of the Latin-American literary boom with a boldly feminist narrative, Marvel Moreno has created a world that both mirrors the close-up, private lives of the people of Barranquilla and the human condition itself.

A masterful novel exploring womanhood, class, and tradition in 1950s Colombia

Key Selling Points:

• The first English language publication by one of the most important yet overlooked Latin-American author of the 20th century

• Winner of the Grinzane-Cavour (Italy) and finalist of Plaza y Janés International Literary Prize

• Feminist narrative, historically accurate account within a novel

Target readership

• For readers who loved Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

• Readers of Isabel Allende, Maggie O’Farrell

• Fans of women's fiction, historical fiction exploring liberation and the progression of feminism

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"Furiously feminine, raw and contemporary, Marvel Moreno lights up any literary canon with her savage portrayal: a delicate arbitrariness with which she narrated what she wanted, when she wanted, without asking anyone for permission."

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"Colombian writer Moreno (1939–1995) makes her English-language debut with a layered if diffuse story of late 1970s Colombia....Fans of the Latin American Boom will want to give this a look."

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"One of the hundred most influential women in the history of Colombia."

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"Marvel Moreno has become one of the most renowned authors of contemporary Colombian literature."

Giá sản phẩm trên Tiki đã bao gồm thuế theo luật hiện hành. Bên cạnh đó, tuỳ vào loại sản phẩm, hình thức và địa chỉ giao hàng mà có thể phát sinh thêm chi phí khác như phí vận chuyển, phụ phí hàng cồng kềnh, thuế nhập khẩu (đối với đơn hàng giao từ nước ngoài có giá trị trên 1 triệu đồng).....