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Bruna and Her Sisters in the Sleeping City

Alicia Yánez Cossío
Barcode 9780810145030
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Release Date: 30/07/2022

Genre: Fiction
Translator: Kenneth J. A. Wishnia
Label: Northwestern University Press
Contributors: Kenneth J. A. Wishnia (Translated by)
Language: English
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Pages: 232

Bruna and Her Sisters in the Sleeping City chronicles a wealthy, eccentric family with an ancient presence in northern Ecuador. Bruna’s past is dominated by ghosts and scandals that linger in the old family home in the mountains. As she pieces together the outrageous adventures of her ancestors and relatives, Bruna emerges from the husk of tradition to achieve a balance between the best of the old and the new. Tracing the complete history of Ecuador from the Conquest through the 1970s, the book is a seriocomic examination of the tensions and conflicts inherent in a world that wavers between its oppressive colonial past and its future as a modern society obsessed with material gain.