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Bitter Taste of Time Reissue
By (author) Bea Gonzalez
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Can you believe the things that happen to those Encarna women? No family in the small Spanish town of Canteira has ever given the gossips so much to talk about, so many tragedies and disasters to share on long winter nights. After the absurd but tragic death of her husband, Mar?a Encarna, the family's imposing matriarch, turns her granite house into a pensi?n, opening it up to strangers with their colorful stories of demons and wars. The pensi?n is very much a woman's world: there's Mar?a, known as Mar?a la Reina - the Queen - because of her haughty manner and legendary beauty; Mar?a's two unmarried sisters, Cecilia, given to daring culinary experiments and endless melodrama, and Carmen, the Holy One; and Mar?a's two daughters, Matilde, lost in a world of the imagination; and Asunci?n, a great beauty and her mother's favorite - until she marries Manuel Pousada, the town's most notorious sinner, whose true motive is to get closer to the disdainful Mar?a, the unwilling object of his perverse longings. Fueled by the profits of her connection with the contrabandistas, Mar?a builds a 50-bed hotel and cafe-bar. Through the Spanish Civil War, a dictatorship, and the beginning days of the new democracy, the Encarna women, now joined by Asunci?n's entrepreneurial daughter Gloria, become the wealthiest family in the town. Yet despite their success and tenacity, tragedy comes calling, usually in the form of a man'and almost always on a Friday. In the tradition of Like Water for Chocolate and Antonia's Line, The Bitter Taste of Time is a wondrous, rich and romantic tale of a sweeping history that belongs to a family of remarkable women, a story of passion, pride, love, and war. By turns funny, tragic and touched with a fine sense of magic realism, The Bitter Taste of Time is a hugely entertaining read. B?a Gonzalez's work has been published in The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, T.O. Magazine and Brick Literary Magazine. She has been a finalist twice in the CBC/Saturday Night literary competition. B?a Gonzalez spent several years in Galicia, Spain, while growing up and now lives in Toronto
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Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers
Published date | 31 Jan 2005
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 247
Dimensions | 0 x 0 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 181g
ISBN | 978-0-0063-9323-8
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BISAC | fiction / sagas
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