Descripción
EACH MYTH, EACH STORY, HAS AT LEAST TWO VERSIONS... DEPENDING ON WHO TELLS THE STORY AND WHO LISTENS TO IT.
An original and overwhelming novel about two sisters who escape a genocide, and the journey that takes them from Hollywood to Paris, and to California's Cannery Row, pursued by the ghosts of their murdered friends, who have not finished telling their stories.
El Salvador, 1923. Graciela, the second daughter of Socorrito, a peasant woman from the coffee plantations of Izalco, lives on the slopes of the volcano until she receives a message from the capital, where she is summoned by the Great Pendejo, the dictator who governs the tides, tells volcanoes when to erupt and shapes the moon. There she meets Consuelo, her sister who was kidnapped before she was born. Both spend years under the cruel shadow of the satrap, converted into his oracles. But when he orders the genocide of their community, the sisters cannot bear the horror and escape separately, each believing the other has died. Their flight will take them around the world, to reinvent themselves with the hope of, perhaps, reuniting one day...
Surprising, brimming with imagination and life, Las hijas del volcán traces a new history and mythology of El Salvador through voices that have been left behind for generations.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
A searingly original debut about two sisters and their flight from genocide, each haunted by the ghosts of their murdered friends, who are not yet done telling their stories.
El Salvador, 1923. Graciela, a young girl growing up on a volcano in a community of Indigenous women, is summoned to the capital, where she is claimed as an oracle for a rising dictator. There she meets Consuelo, the sister she has never known, who was stolen from their home before Graciela was born. The two spend years under the cruel El Gran Pendejo's regime, unwillingly helping his reign of terror, until genocide strikes the community from which they hail. Each believing the other to be dead, they escape, fleeing across the globe, reinventing themselves until fate ultimately brings them back together in the most unlikely of ways
Vividly imaginative, Las hijas del volcán charts a new history and mythology of El Salvador, fiercely bringing forth voices that have been calling out for generations.Author: Gina María Balibrera
Publisher: Planeta Publishing
Published: 01/28/2025
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.12w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9786073921527
ISBN10: 6073921527
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino | Historical
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino | Women
- Fiction | Magical Realism