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Cousins : a novel / Aurora Venturini ; translated from the Spanish by Kit Maude ; with an introduction by Mariana Enriquez.
Van Pelt Library PQ7797.V4214 P7513 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Venturini, Aurora, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Primas. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Fiction.
- Women.
- Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
- Dysfunctional families.
- Cousins--Fiction.
- Cousins.
- Women painters--Fiction.
- Women painters.
- Argentina--Fiction.
- Argentina.
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Domestic fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 188 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Soft Skull Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Soft Skull Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- "Cousins, widely regarded as Venturini's masterpiece, is the story of four women from an impoverished, dysfunctional family in La Plata, Argentina, who are forced to suffer through a series of ordeals, including illegal abortions, miscarriages, sexual abuse, disfigurement, and murder, narrated by a daughter whose success as a painter offers her a chance to achieve economic independence and help her family as best as she can." -- Amazon.
- ISBN:
- 9781593767297
- 1593767293
- OCLC:
- 1345215651
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