Family Lore
'Beautiful prose, even-handed magic and all the pains and triumphs of intergenerational bonds' KILEY REID, author of Such A Fun Age and Come and Get It <BR><BR>'Undeniably beautiful' Sunday Times <BR><BR>Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides to throw her own living wake, her sisters are concerned. What has she foreseen?<BR><BR>Planning the celebration brings further complications for the Marte family, because Flor isn't the only person with secrets: her sisters are hiding things, too. And the next generation, cousins Ona and Yadi, face tumult of their own.<BR><BR>Family Lore traces the intertwining stories of five women: sisters and cousins, mothers and daughters, aunts and nieces, to ask the ultimate question - what does it take to live a good life, for yourself and those you love?
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'Beautiful prose, even-handed magic and all the pains and triumphs of intergenerational bonds' KILEY REID, author of Such A Fun Age and Come and Get It <BR><BR>'Undeniably beautiful' Sunday Times <BR><BR>Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides to throw her own living wake, her sisters are concerned. What has she foreseen?<BR><BR>Planning the celebration brings further complications for the Marte family, because Flor isn't the only person with secrets: her sisters are hiding things, too. And the next generation, cousins Ona and Yadi, face tumult of their own.<BR><BR>Family Lore traces the intertwining stories of five women: sisters and cousins, mothers and daughters, aunts and nieces, to ask the ultimate question - what does it take to live a good life, for yourself and those you love?
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127 mm | 194 mm | 41 mm | 280 gr
Erscheinungsjahr
2024
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Verlag
Canongate
ISBN-10
1805300520
ISBN-13
9781805300526
Autor
Elizabeth Acevedo
Sprache
Englisch
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0
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Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Liebe und Beziehungen, Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Tod, Trauer, Verlust, Magischer Realismus, Familienleben
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