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ISBN-10: 1913867331
ISBN-13: 9781913867331
Publisher: Charco Press
Publish Date: 09/27/2022
Dimensions: 5.00" L, 7.70" W, 0.90" H

Salt Crystals

Translator: Robin Myers

Paperback

Price: $15.95

Overview

San Andrés rises gently from the Caribbean, part of Colombia but closer to Nicaragua, the largest island in an archipelago claimed by the Spanish, colonized by the Puritans, worked by slaves, and home to Arab traders, migrants from the mainland, and the descendents of everyone who came before. For Victoria – whose origins on the island go back generations, but whose identity is contested by her accent, her skin color, her years far away – the sun-burned tourists and sewage blooms, sudden storms, and ‘thinking rundowns’ where liberation is plotted and dinner served from a giant communal pot, bring her into vivid, intimate contact with the island she thought she knew, her own history, and the possibility for a real future for herself and San Andrés.

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Colombian writer Bendek's clear-eyed debut....heralds an intriguing new voice. –Publishers Weekly

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Details

ISBN-10: 1913867331
ISBN-13: 9781913867331
Publisher: Charco Press
Publish Date: 09/27/2022
Dimensions: 5.00" L, 7.70" W, 0.90" H
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