Slash and Burn

By: Claudia Hernández

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Synopsis: Through war and its aftermaths, a woman fights to keep her daughters safe. As a girl she sees her village sacked and her beloved father and brothers flee. Her life in danger, she joins the rebellion in the hills, where her comrades force her to give up the baby she conceives. Years later, having outlived countless men, she leaves to find her lost daughter, travelling across the Atlantic with meagre resources. She returns to a community riven with distrust, fear and hypocrisy in the wake the revolution. Hernandez’ narrators have the level gaze of ordinary women reckoning with extraordinary hardship. Denouncing the ruthless machismo of combat with quiet intelligence, Slash and Burn creates a suspenseful, slow-burning revelation of rural life in the aftermath of political trauma.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781911508830
Related ISBNs:: 9781911508823
Publisher:: And Other Stories Publishing
Date of Addition:: 01/04/21
Copyrighted By:: Julia Sanches, 2
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Military, Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Translator:: Julia Sanches