“Oldladyvoice” follows the life of Marina, a nine-year-old girl who spends a scorching summer on the outskirts of Seville, just after Expo’92. Nicknamed Oldladyvoice by her classmates, she often feels out of place between the games of childhood and the desires and fears of someone who is growing up too quickly. Between her mother’s illness, her father’s absence and her grandmother’s loving complicity, Marina observes the world around her with a mixture of innocence and disturbing clarity. As Elisa Victoria’s publisher sums it up, this is a novel about an intelligent child in a sometimes stupid world, and a non-patronising portrait of the inhabitants of the suburbs and working-class districts of southern Europe at the end of the 20th century.
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