The Resource Witches, Brenda Lozano ; translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary
Witches, Brenda Lozano ; translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary
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The item Witches, Brenda Lozano ; translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 281 pages
- Note
- "First published in the Spanish language as Brujas by Brenda Lozano Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, SAU, in 2020"--Title page verso
- Isbn
- 9781529412215
- Label
- Witches
- Title
- Witches
- Statement of responsibility
- Brenda Lozano ; translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary
- Subject
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- Cousins -- Fiction
- Healing -- Fiction
- Mexico -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Soul -- Fiction
- Transgender people -- Crimes against -- Fiction
- Women healers -- Fiction
- Women journalists -- Fiction
- Women -- Mexico -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Cousins -- Death -- Fiction
- 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
- Cataloging source
- QPPL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1981-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lozano, Brenda
- Index
- no index present
- Language note
- Translated from the Spanish
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Cleary, Heather
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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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
- 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
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- 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
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1250305373
- Label
- Witches, Brenda Lozano ; translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary
- 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
Subject
- Cousins -- Fiction
- Healing -- Fiction
- Mexico -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Soul -- Fiction
- Transgender people -- Crimes against -- Fiction
- Women healers -- Fiction
- Women journalists -- Fiction
- Women -- Mexico -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Cousins -- Death -- Fiction
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