by Lina Meruane · ETERNA CADENCIA EDITORA SRL, CUIT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789877120660
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Fruta Podrida is a novel by Chilean author Lina Meruane, published in 2015. The story focuses on two sisters, Zoila and María, who live in a small rural Chilean town called Ojo Seco. María suffers from a serious illness and decides not to seek treatment, while Zoila works in a fruit company and struggles to get her sister to comply with medical prescriptions. The novel explores themes of mutual dependence, illness, and the search for identity in a context of efficient production and healthy bodies.
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.
