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Sandra Benítez

    Sandra Benitez crea narrazioni che approfondiscono le complessità dell'identità e degli incontri culturali. Il suo lavoro esplora spesso temi di sradicamento, memoria e ricerca di appartenenza, attingendo ai suoi anni formativi trascorsi all'estero. La prosa di Benitez è caratterizzata dal suo potere evocativo e dalla sua rappresentazione sfumata di personaggi che navigano in intricati paesaggi emotivi. Offre ai lettori profonde intuizioni sulla condizione umana e sulle forze che plasmano il nostro senso di sé e del luogo.

    Mexico
    Santiago, Mexiko
    Elenas Haus
    Bitter Grounds
    A Place Where the Sea Remembers
    • A Place Where the Sea Remembers

      • 176pagine
      • 7 ore di lettura

      Finalist for the Los Angeles Times book award and winner of the Minnesota Book Award, A Place Where the Sea Remembers is a timeless classic, a mesmerizing world filled with love, betrayal, tragedy, and hope.This rich and bewitching story is a bittersweet portrait of the people in Santiago, a Mexican village by the sea. Chayo, the flower seller, and her husband Candelario, the salad maker, are finally blessed with the child they thought they would never have. Their cause for happiness, however, triggers a chain of events that impact the lives of everyone in their world.The hopes, triumphs, failures, and shortcomings of the novel’s enchanting array of characters create a graceful picture of life that is both a universal portrait and an insider’s look at life in Latin America.

      A Place Where the Sea Remembers
      2,0
    • Bitter Grounds

      • 464pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      Presents the saga of three generations of Salvadoran women whose lives are changed in unexpected ways by a letter that has lain unopened for twenty-six years.

      Bitter Grounds
      4,0
    • Elenas Haus

      • 559pagine
      • 20 ore di lettura

      „Ein Buch, von dem man wochenlang träumt.“ (Isabel Allende) Vier starke Frauen, die das Schicksal zusammenführt: Die Indiofrau Mercedes, die ihren Mann auf brutale Weise verloren hat und ihre Tochter Jacintha einerseits und Elena de Contreras, die reiche Plantagenbesitzerin, und ihre eigenwillige Tochter Magda andererseits. Die Lebenswege dieser vier Frauen verbinden sich miteinander, als Mercedes in den Dienst der mächtigen Elena tritt und ihre Töchter Freundinnen werden. Doch sie leben in einem Land, das von Gewalt beherrscht wird, die auch vor der Tür der Contreras nicht Halt macht. Für die Leserinnen von Julia Alvarez, Zeit der Schmetterlinge

      Elenas Haus
      5,0