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The Wonders

The Wonders

  • Author: Elena Medel , Lizzie Davis, Thomas Bunstead
  • Publisher: Pushkin Press
  • ISBN: 9781782276586
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This is a story about money, about how the money that a woman does not have will shape her life.

María and Alicia are a grandmother and granddaughter who have never met. Decades apart, both are drawn to Madrid in search of work and independence. María, scraping together a living as a cleaner and carer, sending money back home for the daughter she hardly knows; Alicia, raised in prosperity until her family was brought low by tragedy, now trapped in a low-paid job and a cycle of banal infidelities. Their lives are marked by precarity, and by the haunting sense of how things might have been different.

Through a series of arresting vignettes, Elena Medel weaves together a broken family's story, stretching from the last years of Franco's dictatorship to the 2018 Spanish Women's Strike. Audacious, intimate and shot through with sharp-edged lyricism,
The Wonders is a revelatory novel about the many ways that lives are shaped by class, history and feminism; about what has changed for working-class women, and what has remained stubbornly the same.


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Elena Medel / feminism / fiction / international / Lizzie Davis / Spanish / Thomas Bunstead / translation /