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The Sleeping Voice
Dulce Chacon
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Description for The Sleeping Voice
Paperback. Presents a novel based on the testimonies of a number of women who survived the Spanish Civil War, and suffered imprisonment under the France regime, as well as on accounts of others who died fighting for freedom. This book is a bestseller in Spain, where it was voted 'Book of the year'. Translator(s): Caistor, Nick. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 368.
Dulce Chacon's book has had an immense success in Spain, no doubt because the novelist speaks with a just and powerful voice, and because she has allowed women - the most anonymous, the most suppressed, the most silenced - to speak out Le Monde It is 1939. In the Ventas prison in Madrid a group of women have been incarcerated. Their crime is to have supported or fought on the Republican side in Spain's cruel and devastating Civil War. Chief among them are Hortensia, who fought with the militia and is pregnant by her husband Felipe ... Read more
Dulce Chacon's book has had an immense success in Spain, no doubt because the novelist speaks with a just and powerful voice, and because she has allowed women - the most anonymous, the most suppressed, the most silenced - to speak out Le Monde It is 1939. In the Ventas prison in Madrid a group of women have been incarcerated. Their crime is to have supported or fought on the Republican side in Spain's cruel and devastating Civil War. Chief among them are Hortensia, who fought with the militia and is pregnant by her husband Felipe ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843432098
SKU
V9781843432098
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About Dulce Chacon
Dulce Chacon was born in Zafra (Badajoz) in 1954. A prize-winning poet and novelist, her life was cut short by cancer just as The Sleeping Voice was establishing her reputation throughout Europe.
Reviews for The Sleeping Voice
'Dulce Chacon's book has had an immense success in Spain, no doubtbecause the novelist speaks with a just and powerful voice, and becauseshe has allowed women - the most anonymous, the most suppressed, themost silenced - to speak out.' Martine Silber, Le Monde