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Umami / Laia Jufresa

By:

Jufresa, Laia, (1983 -)

Contributor(s):

Hughes, Sophie

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Oneworld Publications , 2015Description: 273 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9781780748917

Subject(s):

Mexico City (Mexico) -- -Fiction

Genre/Form:

Domestic fiction

DDC classification:

LAS FIC JUF

Summary: Deep in the heart of Mexico City, where five houses cluster around a sun-drenched courtyard, lives Ana, a precocious twelve-year-old who spends her days buried in Agatha Christie novels to forget the mysterious death of her little sister years earlier. Over the summer she decides to plant a milpa in her backyard, and as she digs the ground and plants her seeds, her neighbors in turn delve into their past. The ripple effects of grief, childlessness, illness and displacement saturate their stories, secrets seep out and questions emerge - Who was my wife? Why did my Mom leave? Can I turn back the clock? And how could a girl who knew how to swim drown?

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	LAS FIC JUF (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Fiction		057042

Deep in the heart of Mexico City, where five houses cluster around a sun-drenched courtyard, lives Ana, a precocious twelve-year-old who spends her days buried in Agatha Christie novels to forget the mysterious death of her little sister years earlier. Over the summer she decides to plant a milpa in her backyard, and as she digs the ground and plants her seeds, her neighbors in turn delve into their past. The ripple effects of grief, childlessness, illness and displacement saturate their stories, secrets seep out and questions emerge - Who was my wife? Why did my Mom leave? Can I turn back the clock? And how could a girl who knew how to swim drown?

Translated from the Spanish to English

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