by Patricia McCormick · CRUÏLLA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788466117760
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«Venuda» is the young adult novel by Patricia McCormick, published by Cruïlla in hardcover (288 pages, in Catalan).
Lakshmi, a thirteen-year-old Nepali girl, lives with her family in a mountain hut. Her stepfather hands her over for money to a woman who promises to take her to work as a maid in the city, but the journey ends in a Calcutta brothel, the House of Happiness, where she must prostitute herself to pay off a debt. A story about the trafficking of girls and sexual exploitation.
Catalan translation of «Sold» (2006), published in 2007, by Marc Rosich Martí.
Recommended for readers aged 14 to 18 interested in realistic fiction about human trafficking and child exploitation.
Patricia McCormick is an American journalist and writer of realistic fiction for young adults. She has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award.
