Cross-Stitch
Translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney.
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- Available to be ordered
- Paperback published on 08/02/2024
- Page count: 216 pages
- ISBN: 9781916913028
Quick take
A debut novel of female friendship and coming-of-age from Jazmina Barrera, acclaimed author of Linea Nigra and On Lighthouses, translated by Christina MacSweeney.
Synopsis
In Cross-Stitch, the debut novel from essayist and writer Jazmina Barrera, the unexpected death of a friend sets this story into motion, where various time periods, stories, conversations and trips are interwoven.
Cross-Stitch narrates the path towards adulthood in a society pierced with sexist, classist, racist and environmental violence. It is a novel about growth, about the imbalances of identity and the adolescent body. Friendship becomes the primary tool for care, feeling, reparation and resistance for its protagonists. Friendship and embroidery, that activity where women from hundreds of different cultures and time periods have found oppression, repression, freedom, community and art.
Christina MacSweeney's nuanced and beautiful translation guides us on this unforgettable travel chronicle—a chronicle about the effect that trips have on individual and collective identity, and about friendship as travel—with all of its linguistic, emotive, sentimental and cultural problems and discoveries.
About the author
She is the author of four books in Spanish: Cuerpo extraño, Cuaderno de faros, Linea nigra, the children’s book, Los nombres de los animales, Punto de cruz and La reina de espadas. Her books have been published in nine countries and translated to English, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and French.
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