I am very excited to be a part of the Blog Tour for The Wonders by Elena Medel! I received a free copy for honest review from the publisher. Thanks so much to Algonquin Books and Elena Medel for letting me be a part of this tour.
Author: Elena Medel
Translated by: Lizzie Davis and Thomas Bunstead
Published by: Algonquin Books
Released: March 1, 2022
Source: Review Copy Provided by Publisher
Synopsis: Through the vivid
interior worlds of two unforgettable characters, Elena Medel brings a
half century of the feminist movement to life, revealing how little has
really changed for women who work the night shift.
Winner of the prestigious Francisco Umbral Prize for Book of the Year and already a sensation in Spain, The Wonders follows
María and Alicia through the streets of Madrid, from job to job and
apartment to apartment, as they search for meaning and stability,
unknowingly tracing each other’s footfalls across time.
María
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, a caregiver, a cleaner—somehow always taking care of
someone else. Two generations later, during the Women’s March in 2018,
Alicia was working at the snack shop in the Atocha train station when it
overflowed with protesters and strikers. Women, so many women, were
flooding the streets with their signs and chants. She couldn’t have
known María was among them; she was on the clock. And later, she’d be
looking for someone else, a man to take her away for a few hours, to
make her forget. Anyone but her husband, with his pleas to go on bike
rides together, to have children, to act like the other thirtysomething
couples they knew.
Medel’s lyrical sensibility reveals her
roots as a poet, but her fast-paced and expansive storytelling show
she’s a novelist ahead of her time. With grit, texture, and mesmerizing
prose, The Wonders launches an inimitable new voice in fiction. (Synopsis from Goodreads)
My Thoughts: This was a departure from the books that I've been reading recently, but I enjoyed it. This story covers multiple generations and is set in Madrid. It was a very interesting story to read.
This novel really explores what it is like to be a woman in the world. It's set in different time periods and follows their stories and struggles.
It's not a very long book, I wouldn't have minded having a little more to round out the story.
It's written in a sort of literary way too.
I enjoyed the book. It was something different than what I normally read. It's good.
Elena Medel is a Spanish poet and the founder and publisher
of La Bella Varsovia, an independent poetry publishing house. Medel was
the first woman ever to win the prestigious Francisco Umbral Prize, for
her debut novel The Wonders, which was also longlisted for the
Finestres Award and has been translated into fifteen languages. She
published her prizewinning first collection of poetry, My First Bikini, when she was sixteen years old.
Thanks so much for checking out my Blog Tour Stop for The Wonders by Elena Medel. Thank you to Algonquin Books and Elena Medel for letting me be a part of the tour. If this one sounds good to you, I'd definitely recommend giving it a read.
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