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Salt Crystals

by Cristina Bendek - £11.99  Charco Press (2022)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9781913867331 | ISBN 10: 1913867331

Translated by Robin Myers
 
San Andrés rises gently from the Caribbean, part of Colombia but closer to Nicaragua, the largest island in an archipelago claimed by the Spanish, colonized by the Puritans, worked by slaves, and home to Arab traders, migrants from the mainland, and the descendents of everyone who came before.
 
For Victoria – whose origins on the island go back generations, but whose identity is contested by her accent, her skin color, her years far away – the sun-burned tourists and sewage blooms, sudden storms, and 'thinking rundowns' where liberation is plotted and dinner served from a giant communal pot, bring her into vivid, intimate contact with the island she thought she knew, her own history, and the possibility for a real future for herself and San Andrés.
 
WINNER OF ELISA MÚJICA PRIZE FOR NOVELS (Colombia, 2018)

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