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The Resource Witches, Brenda Lozano ; translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary

Witches, Brenda Lozano ; translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary

Label
Witches
Title
Witches
Statement of responsibility
Brenda Lozano ; translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary
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Contributor
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
The beguiling story of a young journalist whose investigation of a murder leads her to the most legendary healer in all of Mexico, from one of the most prominent voices of a new generation of Latin American writers. Paloma is dead. But before she was murdered, before she was even Paloma, she was a traditional healer named Gaspar. Before she was murdered, she taught her cousin Feliciana the secrets of the ceremonies known as veladas, and about the Language and the Book that unlock their secrets. Sent to report on Paloma's murder, Zoe meets Feliciana in the mountain village of San Felipe. There, the two women's lives twist around each other in a danse macabre. Feliciana tells Zoe the story of her struggle to become an accepted healer in her community, and Zoe begins to understand the hidden history of her own experience as a woman, finding her way in a hostile environment shaped by and for men. Weaving together two parallel narratives that mirror and refract one another, this extraordinary novel envisions the healer as storyteller and the writer as healer, and offers a generous and nuanced understanding of a world that can be at turns violent and exultant, cruel and full of hope
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Cataloging source
QPPL
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1981-
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Lozano, Brenda
Index
no index present
Language note
Translated from the Spanish
Literary form
fiction
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Cleary, Heather
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  • Women journalists
  • Women healers
  • Healing
  • Murder
  • Soul
  • Cousins
  • Cousins
  • Women
  • Transgender people
  • Mexico
Target audience
adult
Label
Witches, Brenda Lozano ; translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary
Instantiates
Publication
Note
"First published in the Spanish language as Brujas by Brenda Lozano Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, SAU, in 2020"--Title page verso
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
000071209682
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
281 pages
Isbn
9781529412215
Isbn Type
(pbk.)
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1250305373
Label
Witches, Brenda Lozano ; translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary
Publication
Note
"First published in the Spanish language as Brujas by Brenda Lozano Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, SAU, in 2020"--Title page verso
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
000071209682
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
281 pages
Isbn
9781529412215
Isbn Type
(pbk.)
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1250305373

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