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López Barrio, Cristina, 1970-
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Families -- Fiction.
Women -- Fiction.
Blessing and cursing -- Fiction.
Castile (Spain) -- Fiction.
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López Barrio, Cristina, 1970-
Families -- Fiction.
Women -- Fiction.
Blessing and cursing -- Fiction.
Castile (Spain) -- Fiction.
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The
house
of
impossible
loves
: a
novel
/ Cristina López Barrio ; translated from the Spanish by Lisa Carter.
by
López Barrio, Cristina, 1970-
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2013.
Call #:
FICTION LOP
Subjects
Families -- Fiction.
Women -- Fiction.
Blessing and cursing -- Fiction.
Castile (Spain) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780547661193
0547661193
Uniform title:
Casa de los amores imposibles. English English
Description:
319 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Original title misspelled on t.p. verso as La casa de los amores impossibles.
Translated from the Spanish.
Summary:
"Debut
novel
of a family bound by searing passions, an earthy magic, and a very unusual curse. The Laguna women suffer from an odd affliction: each generation is condemned to tragic love affairs and to give birth only to girls who are unable to escape the cruel fate of their mothers. One fateful hunting season in their small Castilian town, a young landowner arrives and begins a passionate affair with Clara Laguna, the latest in the family line, daughter of a one-eyed woman known as "the Laguna witch." He leaves her pregnant with yet another daughter, but the seeds of change are sown. Eventually the long-awaited son--Santiago, the great-great grandson of Clara--is born. A window of hope is opened, but is the curse truly over? The
novel
introduces a cast of memorable, eccentric characters, from a bearded, mute female cook to the local do-gooding priest and the indelible Laguna women themselves."--Publisher.
Genre:
First
novel
.
Spanish fiction -- Translations into English.
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