The Wonders

"A mesmerizing read . . . I was completely engrossed in this story, in the shadow each generation casts on the one that comes after it, in the tension between caring for oneself and caring for others."&nbsp;--Avni Doshi, author of the Booker Prize finalist&nbsp;Burnt Sugar<br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" /> <br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" /> Through the vivid interior worlds of two unforgettable characters, Elena Medel brings a half century of the feminist movement to life, revealing how little has really changed for&nbsp;women who work the night shift.&nbsp; Winner of the prestigious Francisco Umbral Prize for Book of the Year and already a sensation in Spain,&nbsp;The Wonders&nbsp;follows María and Alicia through the streets of&nbsp;Madrid, from job to job and apartment to apartment, as they search for meaning and stability, unknowingly tracing each other's footfalls across time.&nbsp; María moved to the city in&nbsp;1969, leaving her daughter with her family but hoping to save enough to take care of her one day. She worked as a housekeeper, a caregiver,&nbsp;a cleaner--somehow always taking care of someone else. Two generations later, during the Women's March in&nbsp;2018, Alicia was working at the snack shop in the Atocha&nbsp;train station when it overflowed with protesters and strikers. Women, so many women, were flooding the streets with their signs and chants. She couldn't have known&nbsp;María was among them; she was on the clock. And later, she'd be looking for someone else, a man to take her away for a few hours, to make her forget. Anyone but her&nbsp;husband, with his pleas to go on bike rides together, to have children, to act like the other thirtysomething couples they knew.&nbsp; Medel's lyrical sensibility reveals her roots as a poet, but her fast-paced and expansive storytelling show she's a novelist ahead of her time. With grit, texture, and&nbsp;mesmerizing prose,&nbsp;The Wonders&nbsp;launches an inimitable new voice in fiction.

Literature & Fiction

Medel, Elena

Literary

Algonquin Books

"The Wonders&nbsp;is a poet's novel, delicate but strong, impressing its images firmly on the imagination."&#8203;&nbsp;--Hilary Mantel&nbsp;&nbsp; LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD NOW TRANSLATED INTO FIFTEEN LANGUAGES&nbsp; From award-winning Spanish poet Elena Medel comes a mesmerizing new novel of class, sex, and desire.&nbsp; Already an international sensation, The Wonders follows Maria and Alicia through the streets of Madrid, from job to job and apartment to apartment, as they search for meaning and stability in a precarious world and unknowingly trace each other's footfalls across time.&nbsp; Maria moved to the city in 1969, leaving her daughter with her family but hoping to save enough to take care of her one day. She worked as a housekeeper, then a caregiver, and later a cleaner, and somehow she was always taking care of someone else. Two generations later, in 2018, Alicia was working at the snack shop in Madrid's Atocha train station when it overflowed with protestors and strikers. All women--and so many of them--protesting what? Alicia wasn't entirely sure. She couldn't have known that Maria was among them. Alicia didn't have time for marches; she was just trying to hang on until the end of her shift, when she might meet someone to take her away for a few hours, to make her forget.&nbsp; Readers will fall in love with Maria and Alicia, whose stories finally converge in the chaos of the protests, the weight of the years of silence hanging thickly in the air between them. The Wonders brings half a century of the feminist movement to life, and launches an inimitable new voice in fiction. Medel's lyrical sensibility reveals her roots as a poet, but her fast-paced and expansive storytelling show she's a novelist ahead of her time.

Les Merveilles

LA CROISEE

Si Principito hubiese sido una niña, esta sería su historia. Ahora el cuento es suyo. La pequeña princesa debe abandonar su palacio para encontrar un príncipe&nbsp; y un reino para ella. Ese es el cuento que siempre le han contado. Pero&nbsp; en los cuentos muchas veces se mezclan mentiras y realidad. Y hay que saber mirar con el corazón para distinguirlas. En el viaje aprende a dudar, a elegir, a ver el mundo con nuevos ojos. Y, al final del camino, ¿podrá escribir su propio cuento la pequeña princesa? &nbsp; ENGLISH DESCRIPTION If the Little Prince had been a girl, this would be her story. &nbsp; Now the story is hers. The Little Princess must leave her palace to find a prince and a kingdom of her own. That is the story that's always been told. But stories too often mix lies and reality. And you must know how to look with your heart in order to tell them apart. On the journey, she learns to doubt, to choose, to see the world with new eyes. And in the end, will the Little Princess be able to write her own story?

La pequeña princesa / The Little Princess (Spanish Edition)

Children's Books

Action & Adventure

Montena

La primera novela de Elena Medel: un recorrido por las últimas décadas de la historia de España y un retrato lírico y honesto de dos mujeres trabajadoras. 
¿Cuál es el peso de la familia en nuestras vidas, y cuál es el peso del dinero en nuestras vidas? ¿Qué sucede cuando una madre decide no cuidar de su hija, y qué sucede cuando una hija decide no cuidar de su madre? 
¿Habríamos sido diferentes de haber nacido en otro lugar, en otro tiempo, en otro cuerpo? En esta novela hay dos mujeres: María, que a finales de la década de los sesenta deja su vida en una ciudad del sur para trabajar en Madrid, y Alicia, que nace más de treinta años después y repite su camino por motivos diferentes. Sabemos lo que las separa, pero... ¿Qué las une? ¿Qué les pertenece, qué han perdido? 
Las maravillas es una novela sobre el dinero. Una novela sobre la falta de dinero: sobre la manera en la que nos define el dinero que no tenemos. Es también una novela sobre cuidados, responsabilidades y expectativas; sobre la precariedad que no responde a la crisis sino a la clase, y sobre quiénes -qué voces, en qué circunstancias- contarán las historias que nos permitan conocer nuestros orígenes y nuestro pasado. Las maravillas recorre las últimas décadas de la historia de España: desde el final de la dictadura hasta el estallido feminista, contado desde la periferia de una gran ciudad y en las voces -y en los cuerpos- de quienes no pueden manifestarse porque tienen que trabajar. En Las maravillas, a su manera una novela de aprendizaje, hay también pisos compartidos, líneas lentas del transporte público, raciones en bares con platos salpicados de aceite. Y de nuevo: la falta de dinero. Sobre eso trata esta novela deslumbrante, que ya antes de su publicación sedujo a algunos de los más destacados editores internacionales y será traducida a quince idiomas.

Las maravillas (Spanish Edition)

Editorial Anagrama

un día negro en una casa de mentira (1998-2014): Poesía reunida

Poetry

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