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Mi vida robada
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Carla Guelfenbein, winner of the Alfaguara Prize, "subtle, visionary, and humane" (J. M. Coetzee), has written a novel about the search for identity, mother-daughter relationships, and the complexities of the art world. "She has created an authentic and powerful voice." —The Independent "The rain kept pounding on the window, constant and gray, curled up in itself like a snail in its shell. I felt your elusive presence in your clothes, your escaping spirit." Using nineteen photographs of New York, the author narrates the life of Lola, a young woman whose mother left her at the age of eight to pursue an acting career in the Big Apple. Marked by this early abandonment, Lola has lived a life of insecurities and emotional deprivation. Everything changes when she receives a call from a stranger warning her that her mother has disappeared, and she embarks on the difficult task of finding a woman she barely knows. Lola's journey will take her to the very depths of human nature and to discovering herself. A journey wh
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