Paloma Caro
Universo de Letras 2020
Marie Fenoy is a sixteen-year-old pied noir living in Oran. Daughter of a bourgeois Parisian and a farmer from the Alicante countryside who she met in Algeria. Marie is not considered attractive because she is thin and different for the time’s taste; her way of thinking, like her appearance, are unique. In 1913, encouraged by Diego, her brother, she sets up in the market place, together with the storytellers, slippers sellers and clerks, a stall to advise on everyday problems in exchange for the will. Her life changes the day the richest lady in the city appears dead and her brother is accused. She investigates, defends him and confronts the long-nosed and unfriendly Algerian policeman who blames him. Then life comes to her in spurts: the First World War, the pain and loss of her mother's memories, the discovery of sex, the fear of pregnancy, marriage at eighteen, her flight to Spanish Morocco to prevent that her husband is sent back to the front... Throughout the entire time and until the end of this novel, she continues to have doubts about who is the responsible of that murder.
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