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Author Rojas Contreras, Ingrid, author.

Title La fruta del borrachero / Ingrid Rojas Contreras ; traducción de Guillermo Arreola.

Publication Info. Nueva York : Vintage Español, [2018]

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  SPANISH ROJA    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Foreign Language  SP FIC ROJAS CONTRERAS, I    DUE 12-30-23 Billed
Edition Primera edición Vintage Español.
Description 396 pages ; 21 cm
Note Translation of: Fruit of the drunken tree.
Summary "When women of color write history, we see the world as we have never seen it before. In Fruit of the Drunken Tree, Ingrid Rojas Contreras honors the lives of girls who witness war. Brava! I was swept up by this story." --SANDRA CISNEROS, author of The House on Mango Street A mesmerizing debut set against the backdrop of the devastating violence of 1990's Colombia about a sheltered young girl and a teenage maid who strike an unlikely friendship that threatens to undo them both Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls, where the godlike drug lord Pablo Escobar continues to elude authorities and capture the attention of the nation. When their mother hires Petrona, a live-in-maid from the city's guerrilla-occupied slum, Chula makes it her mission to understand Petrona's mysterious ways. But Petrona's unusual behavior belies more than shyness. She is a young woman crumbling under the burden of providing for her family as the rip tide of first love pulls her in the opposite direction. As both girls' families scramble to maintain stability amidst the rapidly escalating conflict, Petrona and Chula find themselves entangled in a web of secrecy that will force them both to choose between sacrifice and betrayal. Inspired by the author's own life, and told through the alternating perspectives of the willful Chula and the achingly hopeful Petrona, Fruit of the Drunken Tree contrasts two very different, but inextricable coming-of-age stories. In lush prose, Rojas Contreras sheds light on the impossible choices women are often forced to make in the face of violence and the unexpected connections that can blossom out of desperation."
Language Text in Spanish.
Subject Families -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Fiction.
Violence -- Psychological aspects -- Fiction.
Bogotá (Colombia) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Familias -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Novela.
Violencia -- Aspectos psicológicos -- Novela.
Muchachas adolescentes -- Novela.
Hermanas -- Novela.
Bogotá (Colombia) -- Vida social y costumbres -- Novela.
Materiales en español -- Ficción.
Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Sisters. (OCoLC)fst01119758
Teenage girls. (OCoLC)fst01145412
Violence -- Psychological aspects. (OCoLC)fst01167246
Colombia -- Bogotá. (OCoLC)fst01204897
Family life -- Colombia -- Bogotá -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.
Bildungsromans. (OCoLC)fst01726536
Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Novels. (OCoLC)fst01921742
Added Author Arreola, Guillermo, translator.
Added Title Fruit of the drunken tree. Spanish
ISBN 0525564012 (paperback)
9780525564010 (paperback)
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