December breeze / Marvel Moreno ; translated from the Spanish by Isabel Adey and Charlotte Coombe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moreno, Marvel, 1939-1995, author.

Contributor:

Adey, Isabel, translator.

Coombe, Charlotte, translator.

Standardized Title:

En diciembre llegaban las brisas. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Colombia--History--1946-1974--Fiction.

Colombia.

Genre:

Fiction.

History.

Physical Description:

446 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Europa Editions, 2022.

Language Note:

In English. Translated from the Spanish.

Summary:

"From 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Originally published in Spanish under the title: En diciembre llegaban las brisas.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781609458027

1609458028

9781787704091

1787704092

OCLC:

1305912784

Publisher Number:

99992564871