Elena Medel

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The WondersHardcover, 1 March 2022

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Print Length
240 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Algonquin Books
Date Published
1 Mar 2022
ISBN-10
1643752111
ISBN-13
9781643752112

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"The Wonders is a poet's novel, delicate but strong, impressing its images firmly on the imagination."​ --Hilary Mantel

LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD
NOW TRANSLATED INTO FIFTEEN LANGUAGES

From award-winning Spanish poet Elena Medel comes a mesmerizing new novel of class, sex, and desire.

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.

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.

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.

Product Details

Author:
Elena Medel
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 March 2022
Dimensions:
21.34 x 14.73 x 2.54 cm
ISBN-10:
1643752111
ISBN-13:
9781643752112
Language:
English
Pages:
240
Publisher:
Weight:
340.19 gm

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