{"product_id":"the-wonders-by-elena-medel-9781782276593","title":"The Wonders","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaria and her granddaughter Alicia have never met. Decades apart, both make the same journey to Madrid in search of work and independence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMaria, scraping together a living as a cleaner and carer, sends money back home for the daughter she hardly knows. Alicia, raised in prosperity until a family tragedy, is now trapped in a poorly paid job and a cycle of banal infidelities. Their lives are marked by precarity, and by the haunting sense of how things might have been different.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough a series of arresting vignettes, Elena Medel weaves together a broken family's story, stretching from the last years of Franco's dictatorship to mass feminist protests in contemporary Madrid. Audacious, intimate, and shot through with razor-edged lyricism, \u003cem\u003eThe Wonders\u003c\/em\u003e is a revelatory novel about the many ways that lives are shaped by class, history, and feminism: about what has changed for working-class women, and what has remained stubbornly the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46846722867436,"sku":"9781782276593","price":27.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/15466553482822.jpg?v=1758919533","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-wonders-by-elena-medel-9781782276593","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}