Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Weaving together two parallel narratives that mirror and refract one another, 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. 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. In her Loop, an unnamed diarist explores the awful reality of gender-based violence, but in Witches, Lozano uses it as a point of connection for Feliciana and Zoe. There, the two women's lives twist around each other in a danse macabre. Sent to report on Paloma's murder, Zoe meets Feliciana in the mountain village of San Felipe. 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. But before she was murdered, before she was even Paloma, she was a traditional healer named Gaspar. Witches Brenda Lozano with Heather Cleary (Translator) 272 pages first pub 2020 ( editions) fiction literary dark reflective sad medium-paced Description A remarkable novel by one of the most exciting new voices in Latin America today This is the story of who Feliciana is, and of who Paloma was. The beguiling story of a young journalist whose investigation of a murder leads her to the most legendary healer in all of Mexico, from one of the most prominent voices of a new generation of Latin American writers Paloma is dead.
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