Brenda Lozano

Mothers (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel
Übersetzer: Cleary, Heather

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the author of Witches, a gripping, kaleidoscopic tale of two women in 1940s Mexico-one whose daughter has just been kidnapped and another who has just adopted a little girl When the kidnapping of a little girl shocks the Mexican capital, the lives of two very different women become forever intertwined. Gloria Felipe lives a comfortable upper-class life with her husband and five children. Nuria Valencia, on the other hand, comes from a working-class background and has been desperately trying to get pregnant in order to save her marriage. After traditional methods produce no results, she subjects herself to horrific fertility treatments designed and administered by men, and ultimately tries to adopt, but is rejected on the basis that a woman in her early 30s is too old to adopt a baby. Failed time and again by the system, she takes matters into her own hands. Through the eyes of a wry, unknown female narrator, we witness the battle of the Felipe family to recover their youngest member and the anguished attempts of the Valencia family to save their daughter from a potential danger. Nimbly exploring including class-based injustice, domestic violence, social conservatism, corruption, obstetric violence, Mothers offers a critical look at the mandates of motherhood while showing the possibilities of rebellion and self-determination that women of the twentieth opened for future generations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Catapult
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781646222544
• Artikelnr.: 73162659

Autorenporträt

BRENDA LOZANO is a fiction writer, essayist, and editor. She is the author of five books including Witches (Catapult, 2022) and Loop (Charco Press, 2019). In 2015 she was selected by Conaculta, the Hay Festival and the British Council as one of Mexico's best fiction writers under 40. In 2017 she was added to the Bogota 39 list, a selection of the best fiction writers under 40 from across Latin America. HEATHER CLEARY has translated poetry and prose by writers including Betina González, Mario Bellatin, Sergio Chejfec, and María Ospina; her work has been recognized by the National Book Foundation, the Best Translated Book Award, the National Translation Award, and others.