by Lina Meruane · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789968636155
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«Sangre en el ojo» is the novel by Lina Meruane, published by Ediciones Lanzallamas in paperback (174 pages, in Spanish).
During a party, Lucina discovers a thread of blood invading her eye. The hemorrhages leave her without vision, perhaps forever, and she must face darkness and helplessness. That forced return to her parents' house in Chile, from which she had fled, drags her toward cruelty and hatred.
Edition published in 2013 within the Bartleby Collection (no. 4). The work received the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize in 2012.
For readers of contemporary fiction and Latin American literature interested in stories about illness and family.
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.
