by Lucia Berlin · L'Altra Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788494508509
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«Manual per a dones de fer feines» is an anthology of short stories by Lucia Berlin, published by L'Altra Editorial in paperback (474 pages, in Catalan).
The stories, almost always autobiographical, portray Lucia Berlin's turbulent life: alcoholism, withdrawal, the death of her little sister, work in laundries, contact with ex-convicts and rich families' houses. All with humor, tenderness and a lucid gaze on human fragility and the female experience.
The work was originally published in English as A Manual for Cleaning Women; this edition includes a translation by Albert Torrescasana Flotats and a foreword by Lydia Davis.
For readers of realistic short fiction with working-class female voices, and for reading groups.
Lucia Brown Berlin was an American short story writer. She had a small, devoted following, but did not reach a mass audience during her lifetime. She rose to sudden literary fame in 2015, eleven years after her death, with the publication of a volume of her selected stories, A Manual for Cleaning Women.
