The wonders /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Medel, Elena, 1985- author.
Uniform title:	Maravillas. English
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2022. ©2022
Description:	229 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Feminism -- Fiction. Women -- Spain -- Madrid -- Fiction. Feminism. Women. Madrid (Spain) -- Fiction. Spain -- Madrid. Feminist fiction. Fictional Work Domestic fiction. Fiction. Novels. Domestic fiction. Novels.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12776078

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Other authors / contributors:	Davis, Lizzie, 1993- translator. Bunstead, Thomas, translator.
ISBN:	9781643752112 1643752111 9781643753027
Notes:	"Originally published in Spain in 2020, under the title Las Maravillas, by Editorial Anagrama."--Title page verso. Translated from the Spanish.
Summary:	"Through the rich inner lives of two ordinary, unforgettable women, award-winning Spanish poet Elena Medel brings a half-century of the feminist movement to life, revealing the simmering truth that money is ultimately the limiting factor in most women's lives"-- María moved to the city in 1969, leaving her daughter with her family but hoping to save enough to take care of her one day. She worked as a housekeeper, a caregiver, a cleaner--somehow always taking care of someone else. Two generations later, during the Women's March in 2018, Alicia was working at the snack shop in the Atocha train station when it overflowed with protesters and strikers. Women, so many women, were flooding the streets with their signs and chants. She couldn't have known María was among them; she was on the clock. And later, she'd be looking for someone else, a man to take her away for a few hours, to make her forget. Anyone but her husband, with his pleas to go on bike rides together, to have children, to act like the other thirtysomething couples they knew.

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Summary:	" The Wonders is a poet's novel, delicate but strong, impressing its images firmly on the imagination." --Hilary Mantel <br> <br> <br> <br> LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD <br> <br> NOW TRANSLATED INTO FIFTEEN LANGUAGES <br> <br> <br> <br> From award-winning Spanish poet Elena Medel comes a mesmerizing new novel of class, sex, and desire. <br> <br> <br> <br> Already an international sensation, The Wonders follows Maria and Alicia through the streets of Madrid, from job to job and apartment to apartment, as they search for meaning and stability in a precarious world and unknowingly trace each other's footfalls across time. <br> <br> <br> <br> Maria moved to the city in 1969, leaving her daughter with her family but hoping to save enough to take care of her one day. 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 protestors and strikers. All women--and so many of them--protesting what? Alicia wasn't entirely sure. She couldn't have known that Maria was among them. Alicia didn't have time for marches; she was just trying to hang on until the end of her shift, when she might meet someone to take her away for a few hours, to make her forget. <br> <br> <br> <br> Readers will fall in love with Maria 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.
Item Description:	"Originally published in Spain in 2020, under the title Las Maravillas, by Editorial Anagrama."--Title page verso. Translated from the Spanish.
Physical Description:	229 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:	9781643752112 1643752111 9781643753027