{"product_id":"december-breeze","title":"December Breeze","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom her home in Paris, Lina recalls the story of three women whose lives unfold in the conservative city of Barranquilla in Colombia.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAmongst parties at the Country Club and strolls along the promenade in Puerto Colombia, unfurls a story of sensuality supressed by violence; a narrative of oppression in which Dora, Catalina and Beatriz are victims of a patriarchal system living in and among the fragile threads of the fabric of society. In Lina's obsessive recounting of the past, this masterful novel transforms anecdotes of a life into an absolute view of the world, a profound panorama of Colombian society towards the end of the 50s.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWritten from personal memories and historical research, this is a novel that is both precise and poetic, a novel that immortalises \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e– from the distant perspective of its narrator \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e– the events that took place in a small seaside town. Distancing herself from her contemporaries of the Latin-American literary boom with a boldly feminist narrative, Marvel Moreno has created a world that both mirrors the close-up, private lives of the people of Barranquilla and the human condition itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marvel Moreno","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43556430250241,"sku":"9781787704091","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-2023-07-11T105013.686.png?v=1689069041","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.pro\/products\/december-breeze","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}