Last Updated: Thursday, September 6, 2007



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)

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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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