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The Five Wounds

It's Holy Week in the small town of Las Penas, New Mexico, and thirty-three-year-old unemployed Amadeo Padilla has been given the part of Jesus in the Good Friday procession. He is preparing feverishly for this role when his fifteen-year-old daughter Angel shows up pregnant on his doorstep and disrupts his plans for personal redemption. With weeks to go until her due date, tough, ebullient Angel has fled her mother's house, setting her life on a startling new path. Vivid, tender, funny, and beautifully rendered, The Five Wounds spans the baby's first year as five generations of the Padilla family converge: Amadeo's mother, Yolanda, reeling from a recent discovery; Angel's mother, Marissa, whom Angel isn't speaking to; and disapproving Tíve, Yolanda's uncle and keeper of the family's history. Each brings expectations that Amadeo, who often solves his problems with a beer in his hand, doesn't think he can live up to. The Five Wounds is a miraculous debut novel from a writer whose stories have been hailed as "legitimate masterpieces" (New York Times). Kirstin Valdez Quade conjures characters that will linger long after the final page, bringing to life their struggles to parent children they may not be equipped to save.

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Price: 10.49 EUR excl. shipping

Tu Lengua En Mi Boca / Your Tongue in My Mouth

Berta pasó tres décadas en una casa con su tía amargada, sus libros y sus penas. La vida le ofrece poco, hasta que la muerte de la tía le deja una promesa: llevar sus cenizas a la Zona del Silencio, un místico desierto entre Durango, Chihuahua y Coahuila. Toma rumbo y el destino la alcanza lejos de su casa, en un hotel de paso en Torreón, cuando descubre a unas adolescentes que se juntan a recitar poesía en un terreno baldío contiguo. Berta las espía desde la intimidad de su cuarto y las escuchas le devuelven un apetito furioso por la vida. De la Ciudad de México al desierto de Coahuila y de regreso, Tu lengua en mi boca es una novela de generaciones de mujeres que encuentran en la literatura la rebeldía para escapar de la violencia, el desasosiego y la falta de futuro. Una oda a la adolescencia, a salir del estupor, a buscar la vida. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Berta spent three decades in a house with her bitter aunt, her books and her sorrows. Her life has little to offer, until the death of her aunt leaves her a promise to fulfill: to take her ashes to the Zone of Silence, a mystical desert between Durango, Chihuahua and Coahuila. She takes her course and destiny finds her far from home, in a passing hotel in Torreón, when she discovers some teenagers who get together to recite poetry in an adjoining vacant lot. Berta spies on them from the privacy of her room and listening to them brings back a furious appetite for her life. From Mexico City to the Coahuila desert and back, Your Tongue in My Mouth is a novel about generations of women who find rebellion in literature to escape violence, uneasiness, and the lack of a future. An ode to adolescence, waking up from a stupor, to seek life.

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Price: 17.99 EUR excl. shipping