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Written from personal memories and historical research, this is a novel that is both precise and poetic, a novel that immortalises—from the distant perspective of its narrator—the events that took place in a small seaside town.   Distancing herself from her contemporaries of the Latin-American literary boom with a boldly feminist narrative, Marvel Moreno has created a world that both mirrors the close-up, private lives of the people of Barranquilla and the human condition itself.        *WHAT NETGALLEY READERS ARE SAYING*   \"Just delightful.\"   \"Full of a fierce fightback against generations of misogyny and toxic masculinity. This book is powerful.\"   \"A wonderfully written and sensually feminist novel.\"   \"I'd read Moreno again like a shot.\"   \"There's something deliciously unexpected, even subversive about Moreno's prose.\"","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49534011638033,"sku":"GOR012686043","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49744796778769,"sku":"NGR9781787704091","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50154017194257,"sku":"GOR012682909","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1787704092.jpg?v=1759232859"},{"product_id":"el-tiempo-de-las-amazonas-the-time-of-the-amazon-book-marvel-moreno-9788420454887","title":"El El tiempo de las amazonas \/ The Time of the Amazon","description":"\u003cb\u003e«Me recuerda a Anaïs Nin. 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And, yet, even now she considered dissatisfaction intolerable, that state of sexual lethargy she was condemned to endure in her marriage to Luis. Freedom had a price, and she was paying it, harshly, in the worst way she could have possibly imagined. But afterwards, the doors to the world would be wide open for her.\"\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe time of the Amazon\u003c\/i\u003e runs along three decades in the life of three cousins --Gaby, Virginia, and Isabel-- living in Paris in the sixties. Their relentless exploration of desire will lead to decisions that will exact a heavy toll on their lives. 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