Literary Fiction
Under the Fig Tree
by María Bautista
Description
Clara returns from Berlin after ten years with a suitcase filled with pain and guilt. It’s almost impossible for her to feel like she is back home: her mother is not there anymore and her friends are trying to survive the economic crisis and adult life. Without prospects and without a job, she tries to face her past and to recover the hope of a future by moving to a small village in Salamanca to take care of Inés, her 93 years old grandmother. In a house full of the old woman ghosts, always ill-tempered and elusive, Clara will discover a story that, like her own, is marked by the deaths of others and by secrets that, sooner or later, will come out to light.
With a Spanish depopulated rural village as a background, the novel tells the encounter between two generations of women and how they overcome their differences through sorority and solidarity.
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Endorsements
“The reasons and roots of these characters, literary and vital, are our own. This novel talks, tough and tenderly, about coming back to the root and to the soil.” Aroa Moreno Durán.
Author Biography
María Bautista (Salamanca, 1982) grew up in Alcalá de Henares and studied journalism in Madrid. Together with the artist Raquel Bonita, they began in 2010 a literary and editorial project called Cuento a la vista and published the books Cuentos diferentes para niños diferentes, Las ciudades de colores and Cuentos para leer con los abuelos. Her last book for children was Moussa sueña. She lives in Berlin since 2013. Under the fig tree is her first novel.
Maclein y Parker
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- Publisher Maclein y Parker
- Publication Date November 2019
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- ISBN/Identifier 9788412019872
- Publication Country or regionSpain
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 18.50 EUR
- Pages276
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language TitleBajo la higuera
- EditionFirst
- Copyright Year2019
- Dimensions19x13 cm
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