Cruel Sky
by Maritza M. Buendía
Description
Cruel Sky tells the love stories of three generations of women living in the little town Cielo cruel. Grandma Belén was a young teacher influenced by José Vasconcelos. Years later, she married Severino, but she could only find any sexual pleasure with him, fantasizing about violent scenes. Gloria, the mother, married Fernando and migrated to the USA. Once they came back to Cielo cruel, she reconnects with Soledad, an old friend of her, which Gloria will strive to include as part of her sex life with Fernando. Finally, Mar, the daughter, who will grow up traumatized by a self-inflected guilt. Her life is a journey from the desert to sea, a girl’s metamorphosis into a woman, a seek for a man who doesn’t close his eyes while making love.
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Author Biography
(Zacatecas, Mexico, 1974) She has a PhD in Humanities-Literature by UAM-Iztapalapa, México. She won the National Prize for Literature "Gilberto Owen" with Tangos para Barbie y Ken (Texfilia, 2016), the Fine Arts Award on Literary Essay "José Revueltas" with Poética del voyeur, poética del amor: Juan García Ponce and Inés Arredondo (UAM/CONACULTA, 2013), and the National Short Story Award "Julio Torri" with En el jardín de los cautivos (Tierra Adentro, 2005). She was twice a fellow of the Young Creators Program from the FONCA, and was part of the first generation of the Foundation for Mexican Literature.
Buendía is currently a member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico (SNI) and a research professor of the Literature program and of the Master's Degree in Hispanic Literature at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas.
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- Publisher/Imprint Penguin Randon House / Alfaguara
- Orginal LanguageSpanish
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusUnpublished
- Original Language TitleCielo cruel
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