The Sleeping Voice
$42.67
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
15 January 2006
Summary
A novel based on the testimonies of hundreds of survivors that tells the previously untold story of the women who were on the losing side in the Spanish Civil War.
“Dulce Chacón’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 b…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781843432098 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1843432099 |
| Author: | Dulce Chacon, Nick Caistor |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Harvill Secker |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 15 January 2006 |
| Weight: | 334g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 155mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
”‘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”
About The Author
Dulce Chacon
Dulce Chacón 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.
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