Eating Ashes

Name: Eating Ashes
Author: Brenda Navarro Megan McDowell (tr.)
ISBN: 9781836430209

Brenda Navarro Megan McDowell (tr.)

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Eating Ashes

Brenda Navarro Megan McDowell (tr.)

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Eating Ashes won the Cálamo Award for the best book published in Spain in 2022, the Madrid Bookstores Association Award for the best book published in Spain in 2022, the Todos tus libros Bookstores Spanish Association Award for the best book published in Spain in 2022, and the Arcebispo Juan de San Clemente Award for the best book published in Spanish language in Spain in 2023. Six seconds. A man falling. An image that haunts her forever. Returning to the Mexico of their childhood, Diego's sister is plagued with questions, beset with crippling grief and guilt. As she struggles to get her head and her heart around her brother's death, she sees the life they shared anew. Here she tells their story: that of the poor, the exploited, the outsider far from home, with quiet power and vibrant prose. As she does so, she asks herself how well she really knew the boy she tried so hard to raise. And what, in the end, makes a life worth living? Rippled through with flashes of dark humour, Eating Ashes is a heartbreaking examination of home, of loneliness and belonging, separation and loss, from a critically acclaimed Latin American novelist.

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