Violeta among the stars
Cardoso, Dulce Maria, 1964-2022
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Desperate and drunk, Violeta overturns her car on a lonely stretch of late-night motorway. As she lies amid the wreckage of her car, suspended between this world and the next, Violeta's life quite literally flashes before her eyes. Scenes from her past overlap with what happened right before the accident: her upbringing with her distant, critical mother; her troubled relationship with her daughter who is everything to her grandparents that Violeta never could be; her life on the road as she drives between waxing product-selling appointments with breaks at motorway service stations, the abuse from other travellers mocking her size, the terrible service station cafes, the alcohol, the risky encounters with lorry drivers on filthy public toilet floors. Suspended in this eternity, Violeta examines her life and what it consists of - the thousand daily grievances that add up to a frustrated life.
Main title:
Violeta among the stars / Dulce Maria Cardoso ; translated by Angel Gurria-Quintana.
Author:
Cardoso, Dulce Maria, 1964-, authorGurría Quintana, Ángel, translator
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2022.
Collation:
400 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Portuguese.
ISBN:
9781529415148 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
869.35
Language:
EnglishPortuguese
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BRN:
2532731
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