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Bruna and Her Sisters in the Sleeping City (1999)

Bruna and Her Sisters in the Sleeping City (1999)

Alicia Yánez Cossío

Year: 1999
Authors: Alicia Yánez Cossío
Publishers: Northwestern University Press
Pages: 254
Print type: BOOK

Description:

A magic-realism novel set in Ecuador which traces an eccentric family's history from the Conquest to modern times. One woman paints her face white for a portrait to hide her Indian origin, another weaves a carpet intended to stretch to Rome so as to encourage the Pope to visit.