Join Cristina Sánchez-Andrade at the Manchester Literature Festival for an evening of fiction in translation and discussion chaired by Michael Schmidt, poet and founder of Carcanet Press.
Cristina Sánchez-Andrade is a journalist and literary critic who has published three previous novels – her third, Your King No Longer Walks this Earth, won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize and has been translated into English and Portuguese. Her book The Winterlings published by Scribe was Herralde Novel Prize Finalist in 2013.
Two sisters return to the small parish of Tierra de Chá in Galicia after a long absence, to the former home of their grandfather, from which they fled when they were just children.
At Tierra de Chá, nothing and everything has changed: the people, the distant little house in the rain, the acrid smell of gorse, the flowers, the crops, the customs. Yet the return of the sisters disrupts the placid existence of the villagers, stirring up memories best left alone.
When news arrives that the famous American actress Ava Gardner will be shooting a movie in Spain and that lookalikes are wanted, the sisters have a chance to make their dreams come true. But the past is catching up with the present, and the family secrets that led to the Winterlings’ return won’t stay buried for long.
‘Cristina Sánchez-Andrade is, without question, one of the most powerful female voices Spanish literature has produced,’ - La Razón.