Cry, Mother Spain Contributor(s): Salvayre, Lydie (Author), Faccini, Ben (Translator) |
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ISBN: 085705452X ISBN-13: 9780857054524 Publisher: Quercus Publishing OUR PRICE: $14.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | War & Military - Fiction | Coming Of Age - Fiction | Historical - General |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 7.8" (0.38 lbs) 240 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Aged fifteen, as Franco's forces begin their murderous purges and cities across Spain rise up against the old order, Montse has never heard the word fascista before. In any case, the villagers say facha (the ch is a real Spanish ch, by the way, with a real spit). Montse lives in a small village, high in the hills, where few people can read or write and fewer still ever leave. If everything goes according to her mother's plan, Montse will never leave either. She will become a good, humble maid for the local landowners, much simas gracias, with every Sunday off to dance the jota in the church square. But Montse's world is changing. Her brother Jos has just returned from L rida with a red and black scarf and a new, dangerous vocabulary and his words are beginning to open up new realms to his little sister. She might not understand half of what he says, but how can anyone become a maid in the Burgos family when their head is ringing with shouts of Revoluci n, Comunidad and Libertad? The war, it seems, has arrived in the nick of time. |