Cry, Mother Spain by Lydie Salvayre
A daughter records her elderly mother’s raw, garrulous monologue about the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath — exile, poverty, political commitment and personal betrayals — while the narrator interrupts with ironic, reflective asides; the result is a sharp, hybrid portrait that mixes dark humor and moral outrage to examine memory, language, trauma and the lingering weight of history on ordinary lives.
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- 2014
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- French
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