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Publication Date:
September 24, 2007
ISBN: 10: 0-9725611-7-X (ISBN
13: 978-09725611-7-4)
Format: Trade Paperback, 120 Pages
$12.50
PAQUITA
SUÁREZ COALLA
SYNOPSIS:
• So I Won't Forget (Para
que no se me olvide, Editorial Campana)
EXCERPTS:
• So
I Won't Forget (Para que no se me olvide, Editorial
Campana)
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SYNOPSIS
So I Won't Forget is a collection
of eighteen stories interspersed with a series of
vignettes that portray a whole century of Spanish
history as it is redefined through the emotional prism
of three generations of women: those born in the early
20th Century who had to confront the reality of war,
hunger and material misery; those who had to adapt
to Franco’s dictatorship at the cost of seeing
their emotional space affected; and those born in
the last years of Franco, or in the dawn of democracy,
who took the lead their mothers and grandmothers offered
them, and dared to question, for the first time, part
of the values they had handed down to them. The narratives
are arranged according to the rhythm of memory, and
without paying too much attention to the historical
moment in which each of them takes place, except for
anecdotes inserted among the stories—where the
same voice of a woman born in the early 20th Century
serenely narrates what her life was like having been marked by
hunger and want. Although you can read each story
independently, as a whole they end up creating a chorale
narrative, giving shape to the collective memory of
a century.
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