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Una novela de Marvel Moreno.
Desde París, Lina recuerda la historia de tres mujeres cuyas vidas transcurren en la conservadora ciudad de Barranquilla. Entre fiestas en el Country Club y paseos a Puerto Colombia se desencadena una historia de sensualidad aplacada por la violencia, un relato de represión y desenfreno en que Dora, Catalina y Beatriz son solo víctimas de un patriarcado alojado en las delgadas fibras de su tejido social. Frágiles, rebeldes, llenas de placer y de dolor, estas mujeres sobreviven a un mundo que se mueve entre la liberación del instinto y la protección de la costumbre.
A novel by Marvel Moreno.
From Paris, Lina recalls the story of three women whose lives unfold in the conservative city of Barranquilla. Amid parties at the Country Club and outings to Puerto Colombia, a story unfolds of sensuality tempered by violence--a tale of repression and debauchery in which Dora, Catalina, and Beatriz are merely victims of a patriarchy embedded in the delicate thread of their social fabric. Fragile, rebellious, full of pleasure and pain, these women survive a world that oscillates between the liberation of instinct and the protection of custom. Through Lina's obsession with remembering her past, this masterful novel transforms the anecdotes of a life into an absolute vision of the world, a profound panorama of Barranquilla society in the late 1960s. From personal memory to historical reality, the structure of this book possesses both precision and poetry, with the detached insight of a narrator who immortalizes from afar the events that took place in this city so close to the sea. Maintaining a clear distance from her contemporaries of the Latin American literary Boom, Marvel Moreno breaks with the female figures of the mythical universe and narrates a reality that ranges from the private lives of Barranquilla's residents to the condition of humanity as a whole. The Breezes Arrived in December contains multiple voices that weave around the contradictions of the female world, in a narrative universe that combats both the constraints of a bourgeois and traditional life and its forms of representation.