Name: Among the Hedges
SKU: 53307585
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Author: Mesa, Sara ; McDowell, Megan
ISBN: 9781948830393

Type

Physical Book

Author

Sara Mesa

Translated by

Megan McDowell

Publisher

Open Letter

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

120

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.1x12.7x1.3 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN13

9781948830393

Synopsis "Among the Hedges "

Casi, who is almost fourteen years old, has been skipping school and spending her days hidden among the hedges in a local park, listening to music and reading women's magazines. One day, Viejo, a fifty-year-old man, stumbles upon her hiding place, and the two strike up a friendship. He tells her about birds and Nina Simone, buys her soda and chips, and spends almost every day talking with her. Despite their age gap, there's something childlike about Viejo that leads Casi to believe that he's not like the other men she's encountered, the dangerous ones. But Viejo has a number of secrets in his past--all of which would be of grave concern to Casi's parents or any other adult who witnessed one of their rendezvous. As these secrets rise to the surface, the clock is ticking, the weather is growing cold and the school is untangling Casi's set of lies, setting up a moment where something has to give. With spare, direct prose, Sara Mesa imbues these two outcasts with a great deal of warmth, raising questions about society's prejudices and assumptions, and creating a truly moving novel of an inappropriate relationship.

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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