by Elena Medel · 10 X 18 · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782264082022
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«Les merveilles» is the novel by Elena Medel, published by 10 X 18 in paperback (213 pages, in French).
María and Alicia are two women from Madrid separated by half a century: in 1969, María leaves her family to work in the service of a wealthy household; in 2018, Alicia scrapes by between a precarious job and an unstable relationship. Both are marked by a lack of money and a social class they cannot choose, and long for a life of their own.
This French edition is translated by Lise Belperron; the work was originally published in Spanish as «Las maravillas» in 2020 and won the Francisco Umbral Prize for Book of the Year.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in class, gender, and precarity.
Elena Medel is a Spanish poet based in Madrid. She has published many collections of poetry, and is the editorial director of La Bella Varsovia, now an imprint of the publishing house Anagrama.
