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Author Ferrada, María José, 1977- author.

Title How to order the universe : a novel / María José Ferrada ; translated by Elizabeth Bryer.

Publication Info. Portland, Oregon : Tin House, 2021.
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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION FERRADA    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FERRADA, MARIA JOSE    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Adult Fiction  FIC FERRADA, M    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F FERRADA, M.    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F FERRADA, MARIA JOSE    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F FERRADA MARIA    In Transit +1 HOLD
 Wethersfield Public Library - Adult Fiction  FIC FERRADA    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  F-FERRADA    Check Shelf
Edition First US edition.
Description 175 pages ; 20 cm
Note Originally published in Spanish as 'Kramp'.
Translated from the Spanish.
Summary "A richly imaginative debut, detailing a girl and her father finding their way -and themselves - while they work as traveling hardware salesmen in Pinochet-era Chile, is a rare work of magic and originality. For seven-year-old M, the world is guided by a firm set of principles, based on her father D's life as a traveling salesman. Enchanted by her father's trade, M convinces him to take her along on his routes, selling hardware supplies amid the backdrop of Pinochet-era Chile. As she becomes part of a tight-knit community of fellow salesmen and grifters, M is regaled with parables and anecdotes that inform her "parallel education," D's excuse for letting her skip school without M's mother's knowledge. As father and daughter trek from town to town in their old Renault, M's memories and thoughts become tied to a language of rural commerce, philosophy, the cosmos, hardware products, and ghosts. M, in her innocence, barely notices the rising tensions and precarious nature of their work, until she and her father connect with an enigmatic photographer, E, whose presence threatens to upend the whimsical life they've created."--Provided by publisher.
Subject Traveling sales personnel -- Fiction.
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
Chile -- History -- 1973-1988 -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Bildungsromans.
Historical fiction.
Added Author Bryer, Beth, 1986- translator.
Added Title Kramp. English
ISBN 9781951142308 hardcover
1951142306 hardcover
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