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English
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"Raised to be obedient by a stern grandmother in a blue-collar town in Massachusetts, Rosie accepts a scholarship to art school in New York City in the 1980s. One morning at a museum, she meets a worldly man twenty years her senior, with access to the upper crust of New England society. Bennett is dashing, knows that 'polo' refers only to ponies, teaches her which direction to spoon soup, and tells of exotic escapades with Truman Capote and Hunter...
2) La anguila
Author
Series
Narrativas hispánicas volume 669
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
abril 2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Este es un libro sobre el cuerpo. Sobre un cuerpo que ama y es amado. Un cuerpo que también es abusado, violentado a través del sexo y el parto, del aborto y la sangre, de la mugre. Materiales no artísticos en manos de una pintora que escribe, de una escritora que mira. La anguila aborda la memoria y la herencia, habla sobre nacimientos y pérdidas, sobre el deseo que traspasa generaciones, los gestos aprendidos y truncados. Sobre rebeliones y...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A dark, poetic mystery about the women of the remote village of Kulumani and the lionesses that hunt them Told through two haunting, interwoven diaries, Mia Couto's "Confession of the Lioness" reveals the mysterious world of Kulumani, an isolated village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghostlike lionesses begin hunting the women who live there
Author
Series
Widowland volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1953. Edward VIII and Wallis are preparing for their coronation, and the country is tense with expectation. In honor of the event, Adolf Hitler will be making his first visit to the UK since its surrender to the Germans in 1940. One oppressive change conforming with Nazi ideology is the strict classification of women into hierarchical groups, ranging from the beautiful and privileged Gelis (named after Hitler's adored niece) down to the...
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