The Library’s new catalog is here. Call 419.259.5200 or visit any location for help.

My Library



     
Limit search to available items
1 result found. sorted by date .


Book Cover

PRINT MATL
Author Hernández, Claudia, 1975- author.

Title Slash and burn / Claudia Hernández ; translated by Julia Sanches.

Publisher Sheffield : And Other Stories, 2020.
©2017

ISBN 9781911508823 (paperback)
1911508822 (paperback)



Location Call No. Status Message
 Main-Adult  Fiction    AVAILABLE  ---

RESOURCES
 
Add a Review

Description 307 pages ; 20 cm
Note(S) Originally published as Roza tumba querma by Laguna Libros, Colombia, in 2017--title page verso.
Summary "Through war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep her daughters safe. As a girl she sees her village sacked and her beloved father and brothers flee. Her life in danger, she joins the rebellion in the hills, where her comrades force her to give up the baby she conceives. Years later, having outlived countless men, she leaves to find her lost daughter, traveling across the Atlantic with meager resources. She returns to a community riven with distrust, fear and hypocrisy in the wake the revolution."--Back cover.
Note Translated from the Spanish.
Subject(S) Women -- Fiction.
Mothers -- Fiction.
War fiction.
Political fiction.
Added Name(S) Sanches, Julia, translator.
Added Title Roza tumba querma. English.
ISBN 9781911508823 (paperback)
1911508822 (paperback)