a brief history of seven killings
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Product details
- ISBN 9781843430964
- Weight: 117g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 10 Feb 2005
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is the story of Aurora Ortiz, who lives in Madrid, and who, at the age of only thirty, has been widowed and needs to find a job. Although she is in no position to choose, she would ideally like to work as a caretaker in a quiet block of flats where she would just watch life pass by. Aurora's aspirations are simple and few, and with the help of her neighbour and friend Fany, who lends her a computer, she composes what she considers a suitable curriculum vitae and proceeds to tramp the streets of the city in search of work. With her vitality and freshness, her innocence, her unconventional intelligence and her relative lack of commercial ambition, Aurora Ortiz is a new type of heroine, one whose ethos and view of the world run contrary to most contemporary trends, she is a character who might have emerged from one of Pedro Almod-var's films. The means by which she comes to terms with the burden and pressures of modern life will strike chords with many of her own European generation.
ALMUDENA SOLANA was born in Galicia in 1963. She works as a press and television journalist in Madrid and writes and paints in her spare time. This is her first novel; a new novel is expected shortly.
