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The unworthy : a novel / Agustina Bazterrica ; translated by Sarah Moses.
Van Pelt Library PQ 7798.412.A9847 I5313 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bazterrica, Agustina María, 1974- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Indignas. English
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Convents--Fiction.
- Convents.
- Nuns--Fiction.
- Nuns.
- Cults--Fiction.
- Cults.
- End of the world--Fiction.
- End of the world.
- Survival--Fiction.
- Survival.
- Climatic changes--Fiction.
- Climatic changes.
- Regression (Civilization)--Fiction.
- Regression (Civilization).
- Genre:
- Horror fiction.
- Dystopian fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Queer fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 177 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First Scribner trade paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2025.
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from Spanish.
- Summary:
- "From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can find--discarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood. A lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, she dreams of ascending to the ranks of the Enlightened at the center of the convent and of pleasing the foreboding Superior Sister. Outside, the world is plagued by catastrophe--cities are submerged underwater, electricity and the internet are nonexistent, and bands of survivors fight and forage in a cruel, barren landscape. Inside, the narrator is controlled, punished, but safe. But when a stranger makes her way past the convent walls, joining the ranks of the unworthy, she forces the narrator to consider her long-buried past--and what she may be overlooking about the Enlightened. As the two women grow closer, the narrator is increasingly haunted by questions about her own past, the environmental future, and her present life inside the convent. How did she get to the Sacred Sisterhood? Why can't she remember her life before? And what really happens when a woman is chosen as one of the Enlightened?" -- Provided by publisher.
- Contains:
- Container of: Bazterrica, Agustina María, 1974- Indignas.
- Container of: Bazterrica, Agustina María, 1974- Indignas. English
- ISBN:
- 1668063700
- 9781668063705
- 1668051885
- 9781668051887
- OCLC:
- 1438663679
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