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Umami / Laia Jufresa.
Van Pelt - Zilberman Family Center for Global Collections PQ7298.42.U47 U43 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jufresa, Laia, 1983- author.
- Language:
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Girls--Mexico--Mexico City--Fiction.
- Girls.
- Neighbors--Mexico--Mexico City--Fiction.
- Neighbors.
- Grief--Fiction.
- Grief.
- Mexico--Mexico City.
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Mexico City (Mexico)--Fiction.
- Mexico City (Mexico).
- Spanish language materials.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 234 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Segunda edición.
- Place of Publication:
- Barcelona : Literatura Random House, 2019.
- Summary:
- "It started with a drowning. Deep in the heart of Mexico City, where five houses cluster around a sun-drenched courtyard, lives Ana, a precocious twelve-year-old who spends her days buried in Agatha Christie novels to forget the mysterious death of her little sister years earlier. Over the summer she decides to build a milpa in her backyard, and as she digs the ground and plants her seeds, her neighbors in turn delve into their past. The ripple effects of grief, childlessness, illness and displacement saturate their stories, secrets seep out and questions emerge--Who was my wife? Why did my Mom leave? Can I turn back the clock? And how could a girl who knew how to swim drown? In prose that is dazzlingly inventive, funny and tender, Laia Jufresa immerses us in the troubled lives of her narrators, deftly unpicking their stories to offer a darkly comic portrait of contemporary Mexico, as whimsical as it is heart-wrenching."--Provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9788439730491
- 8439730497
- OCLC:
- 1117773953
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