Name: December Breeze
Price: 744.00 TWD
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Author: Marvel Moreno
ISBN: 9781609458027

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Physical Book

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Language

English

Pages

484

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.6 x 13.7 x 3.3 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781609458027

Synopsis "December Breeze "

A masterful novel exploring womanhood, class, and tradition in 1950s ColombiaFrom her home in Paris, Lina recalls the story of three women whose lives unfold in the conservative city of Barranquilla in Colombia. Amid parties at the Country Club and strolls along the promenade in Puerto Colombia unfurls a story of sensuality suppressed by violence; a narrative of oppression in which Dora, Catalina, and Beatriz are victims of a patriarchy that is woven into the social fabric.In Lina's obsessive account of the past, this masterful novel transforms personal anecdotes into a profound panorama of Colombian society towards the end of the 1950s. From private memories to historical reality, the structure of this book is full of precision, poetry, and exile's insight.Standing above and apart from her contemporaries of the Latin American literary boom, Marvel Moreno narrates a reality that describes the private lives of the people of Barranquilla while offering a compelling perspective on the human condition."One of the hundred most influential women in the history of Colombia."--Cromos magazine

Marvel Moreno

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Marvel Moreno was born in Barranquilla in 1939. As a teenager, under her father's guidance, she began reading major writers of classical and modern literature, and in the sixties, she focused on the major contemporary authors who would have a definitive influence on her writing. Among others, these included James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Carson McCullers, and William Faulkner. She maintained a close relationship with members of the "Grupo de Barranquilla": Alejandro Obregón, Álvaro Cepeda Samudio, Gabriel García Márquez, and Germán Vargas, who was decisive for her literary life. In October 1969, she published "El muñeco", her first story, in Eco magazine, and shortly after in El Magazín Dominical de El Espectador. In 1980, she published her first book of stories, Algo tan feo en la vida de una señora bien. Her novel En diciembre llegaban las brisas (Alfaguara, 2014) won the Grinzane Cavour Prize in 1989 and was a finalist for the Plaza y Janés International Literary Prize. In 1992, she published a second book of stories, El encuentro y otros relatos. She died in 1995 in Paris, shortly after finishing a third book of stories, Las fiebres del Miramar, which is part of the compilation of her Complete Stories (Alfaguara, 2017), and her last novel, El tiempo de las amazonas (Alfaguara, 2020).

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