The Wonders

✍ Scribed by Elena Medel

• Book ID: 111987625
• Publisher: Algonquin Books
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 140 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781643753027

✦ Synopsis

" I read The Wonders in one page-turning night . . . This book achieves a rare combination of novelistic plotting and virtuosic interiority that left me rooting for Maria and Alicia as if I'd known them all my life."
--Anna Solomon, author of The Book of V.
NOW TRANSLATED INTO FIFTEEN LANGUAGES
From award-winning Spanish poet Elena Medel comes a mesmerizing new novel of class, sex, and desire.
Already an international sensation, The Wonders follows Maria and Alicia through the streets of Madrid, from job to job and apartment to apartment, as they search for meaning and stability in a precarious world and unknowingly trace each other's footfalls across time.
Maria moved to the city in 1969, leaving her daughter with her family but hoping to save enough to take care of her one day. She worked as a housekeeper, then a caregiver, and later a cleaner, and somehow she was always...