by Lina Meruane · ETERNA CADENCIA EDITORA SRL, CUIT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788412664775
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In 'Fruta podrida', Lina Meruane constructs a disturbing and captivating drama in the heart of the Chilean countryside. The novel explores the complex relationship between two sisters: one works in a fruit company and the other faces a serious illness that she decides not to treat. The older sister, however, refuses to accept her sister's decision and fights tirelessly for her to follow medical instructions, seeking a transplant that could be the key to her survival. As the younger sister clings to her desire to die, the older one questions why deny her that ending that she herself has at some point desired. Both sisters find themselves trapped in a relationship of mutual dependence, influenced by the need for efficient production, both of the perfect fruit and of a healthy body. The disease spreads like a plague around the factory and hospitals, revealing a critique of production systems and the medical institution, which imposes its criteria and interests with violence.
Lina Meruane Boza is a Chilean writer and professor. Her work, written in Spanish, has been translated into 12 languages --English, Italian, Portuguese, German, French and Arabic, among others. In 2011 she won the Anna Seghers-Preis for the quality of her work, in 2012 the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for her novel Sangre en el ojo.
