The Sleeping Voice

Dulce Chacon, Nick Caistor

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Harvill
15 January 2006

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A novel based on the testimonies of hundreds of survivors that tells the previously untold story of the women who were on the losing side in the Spanish Civil War

Dulce Chac n's book has had an immense success in Spain, no doubt because the novelist speaks with a just and powerful voice, and because she has allowed women - the most anonymous, the most suppressed, the most silenced - to speak out"" Le Monde

It is 1939. In the Ventas prison in Madrid a group of women have been incarcerated. Their crime is to have supported or fought on the Republican side in Spain's cruel and devastating Civil War. Chief among them are Hortensia, who fought with the militia and is pregnant by her husband Felipe - a man still at large and fighting against Franco's dictatorship - and who lives with the knowledge that she will be shot after she gives birth; sixteen-year-old Elvira, who tried to leave Spain with her mother, but was arrested by the Falangists while she was boarding their ship; Tomasa, whose husband, four sons and daughter-in-law were thrown off a bridge; and Pepita, Hortensia's sister, who from outside the prison acts as messenger between her and her husband.

Dulce Chac n's deeply moving novel is based on the actual testimonies of a number of women who survived the Spanish Civil War, and suffered imprisonment under the France regime, as well as on accounts of others who died fighting for freedom. A bestseller in Spain, where it was voted 'Book of the year', The Sleeping Voice is remarkable for its combination of dramatic intensity and historical authenticity.

By: Dulce Chacon
Translated by: Nick Caistor
Imprint: Harvill
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 334g
ISBN: 9781843432098
ISBN 10: 1843432099
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 15 January 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dulce Chacon was born in Zafra (Badajoz) in 1954. A prize-winning poet and novelist, her life was cut short by cancer just as The Sleeping Voice was establishing her reputation throughout Europe.

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'Dulce Chacon's book has had an immense success in Spain, no doubt because the novelist speaks with a just and powerful voice, and because she has allowed women - the most anonymous, the most suppressed, the most silenced - to speak out.' Martine Silber, Le Monde

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