La voluntad del molle
Karina Pacheco Medrano
NOVEL | 2006 | 265 pages
With the intention of processing her absence, and equally moved by an intuition that concerns them in a coded way, sisters Elsa and Elisa decide to search through their mother’s belongings after her sudden death. Inside an old chest, they find numerous letters, photos, and newspaper clippings. The silence of these documents, removed from sight but still reclaiming their presence in a way, installs them in the vortex of subtle and overflowing violences. Like so, in every line written, every image, and in the trip back through their own memories, they discover the details of their mother’s shortened life, as well as the web of iniquities and cover ups in her story. Set in the city of Cusco, years after the political violence that blighted Peru, La voluntad del molle allows the complicit silences and programmed forgetting of a family group that has been marked by cynicism and tragedy to be discovered.
RIGHTS: spanish FONDO DE CULTURA ECONÓMICA
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