Bibliograph

Witches, a novel, Brenda Lozano ; translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary

Type

Label

Witches, a novel, Brenda Lozano ; translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Witches

Oclc number

1338688348

Responsibility statement

Brenda Lozano ; translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"Paloma is dead. But before she was murdered, before she was even Paloma, she was a traditional healer named Gaspar. Before she was murdered, she taught her cousin Feliciana the secrets of the ceremonies known as veladas, and about the Language and the Book that unlock their secrets. Zoe, a journalist, is sent to report on Paloma's murder in her mountain village of San Felipe. There, she meets Feliciana, and the two women's lives twist around each other in a danse macabre. Feliciana tells Zoe the story of her struggle to become an accepted healer in her community, and Zoe begins to understand the hidden history of her own experience as a woman, finding her way in a hostile environment shaped by and for men. Weaving together two parallel narratives that mirror and refract each other, this extraordinary novel envisions the healer as storyteller and the writer as healer, and offers a generous and nuanced understanding of a world that can be at turns violent and exultant, cruel and full of hope." --Book jacket

Target audience

adult

Classification