Abyss
Quintana, Pilar, 1972-2023
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Claudia is an impressionable eight-year-old, trying to understand the world around her. But her hardworking father hardly speaks a word and her unhappy mother spends her days reading celebrity magazines, tending to her enormous collection of plants and filling Claudia's head with stories about women who end their lives in tragic ways. Then an interloper arrives, disturbing the delicate balance of family life, and Claudia's world starts falling apart. In this strikingly vivid portrait of Cali, Colombia, Claudia's acute observations remind us that children are capable of discerning extremely complex realities even if they cannot fully understand them.
Main title:
Abyss / Pilar Quintana ; translated by Lisa Dillman.
Author:
Quintana, Pilar, 1972-Dillman, Lisa, translator
Imprint:
London : World Editions, 2023.
Collation:
168 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Spanish.
ISBN:
9781912987405 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
863.7
Language:
EnglishSpanish
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BRN:
2590504
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