Summary
Dulce Chacón’s novel, based on the testimonies of hundreds of survivors, tells the previously untold story of the women on the losing side of the Spanish Civil War.
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 – a man still at large and figh…
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: | 20mm x 155mm x 234mm |
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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”
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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