{"product_id":"9781526649348-lilianas-invincible-summer","title":"Liliana's Invincible Summer","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Sister's Search for Justice. \u003cb\u003eA 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, TIME\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eNEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e‘Meticulously written and deeply moving . A triumph’ \u003cb\u003eJACKIE KAY\u003c\/b\u003e‘Absorbing and poetic’ \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eECONOMIST\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e‘Full of tenderness and beauty’ \u003cb\u003eMARIANA ENRIQUEZ\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of Mexico’s greatest contemporary writers, an \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eastonishing work of non-fiction that illuminates \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ean epidemic of femicide in Mexico through the \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003edeath of one woman.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eI seek justice, I finally said. I seek justice for my sister . Sometimes it takes twenty-nine years to say it out loud, to say it out loud on a phone call with a lawyer at the General Attorney’s office: I seek justice.\u003c\/i\u003eOn the dawn of 16 July 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza, Cristina Rivera Garza’s sister, was murdered by her ex-boyfriend and subsumed into Mexico's dark and relentless history of femicide.She was a twenty-year-old architecture student who had been trying for years to end her relationship with a high school boyfriend who insisted on not letting her go. A few weeks before the tragedy, Liliana made a definitive decision: at the height of her winter she had discovered that, as Albert Camus had said, there was an invincible summer in her. She would leave him behind. She would start a new life. She would do a master's degree and a doctorate; she would travel to London. But his decision was that she would not have a life without him.Returning to Mexico after decades of living in the United States, Cristina Rivera Garza collects and curates evidence – handwritten letters, police reports, school notebooks, voice recordings and architectural blueprints – to defy a pattern of increasingly normalised, gendered violence and understand the life lost. What she finds is Liliana: her sister’s voice crossing time and, like that of so many disappeared and outraged women in Mexico, demanding justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40743279329377,"sku":"9781526649348","price":15.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/products\/stand_10960802_jpg.jpg?v=1706129907","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781526649348-lilianas-invincible-summer","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}