Name: Bad Handwriting (Spanish Literature Series)
SKU: 54226413
Price: 318.00 ZAR
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Author: Mesa, Sara ; Whittemore, Katie ; Riddle, Frances
ISBN: 9781948830553

portada Bad Handwriting (Spanish Literature Series)

Bad Handwriting (Spanish Literature Series)

Type

Physical Book

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Translated by

Publisher

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

208

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.1x13.7x1.3 cm

Weight

0.23 kg.

ISBN13

9781948830553

Synopsis "Bad Handwriting (Spanish Literature Series) "

From the author of the highly acclaimed Four by Four and Among the Hedges comes a collection of unsettling, captivating stories.The eleven stories in this collection approach themes of childhood and adolescence, guilt and redemption, power and freedom. There are children who resist authority and experience the process of growing up with shock, and loneliness; alienated young girls whose rebellion lies under the surface--subterranean, furious and impotent; people who are tormented--or not--by regret and doubt, addicted to feelings of culpability; men who take advantage of women and adults who exercise power over children with a disturbing degree of control; kids abandoned by their parents; the suicide of the elderly and the young; lives that hide crimes--both real and imagined. Eschewing cosmopolitanism in favor of the micro-world of her characters, Mesa depicts a reality that is messy and disturbing, on even the smallest scale of an individual life, a single family.

Sara Mesa

(Author)

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Sara Mesa (Madrid, 1976) has been living in Seville since she was a child. She studied Journalism and Hispanic Philology. She is famous for her narrative work. In 2012, she was a finalist for the Herralde Novel Prize with the work Four by Four. She has also published poetry books; This goldfinch agenda, has won the prestigious Miguel Hernández Poetry Award. At the same time, she has written literary criticism on the collective blog Estado Crítico, in the magazine Letras Libres, and in the newspaper El Norte de Castilla. She is considered one of the most interesting and promising voices of her generation.

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